FRANCE: The idea of putting a man on Mars has become very popular in recent years, due to many of the plans put forth by NASA. And in a new statement, NASA reports that they could get astronauts in orbit of the red planet by 2033, and they will land on the surface on 2039.
During a conference, representatives from the Planetary Society, the largest non-governmental space advocacy organization worldwide, stated the results of the workshop where they discussed the feasibility and cost of the Mars mission saying they were happy to say that the mission is both plausible and within the budget of NASA.
Scott Hubbars, professor at Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the Planetary Society’s board of directors, says that, “We believe we now have an example of a long-term, cost-constrained, executable humans-to-Mars program.”
Two other science experts, Bill Nye (Planetary Society CEO) and John Logsdon (professor emeritus at the George Washington University Space Policy Institute and board of directors’ member in Planetary Society) also gave their statements during the conference along with Hubbard.
