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06-05-2014, 08:13 PM
Space Program Should Aim for Mars, Says New Report
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After weighing the costs and dangers (http://www.nextgov.com/health/2014/04/nasa-weighs-ethics-astronaut-health-risks-long-missions-deep-space/81787/) of human spaceflight against concerns such as national security and "the eventual survival of the human species through off-Earth settlement," a congressionally mandated report concludes the United States should go for it — but only under certain conditions.
NASA's human spaceflight program must take a disciplined and incremental approach toward the "horizon goal" of putting humans on Mars, the National Research Council's Human Space Flight Committee said in a congressionally mandated report (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18801) released Wednesday.
This "pathway" approach would involve specific intermediate accomplishments and destinations — likely to include the moon, an asteroid and perhaps Martian moons — with a clear eye toward the surface of Mars itself. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/human-spaceflight-mars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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After weighing the costs and dangers (http://www.nextgov.com/health/2014/04/nasa-weighs-ethics-astronaut-health-risks-long-missions-deep-space/81787/) of human spaceflight against concerns such as national security and "the eventual survival of the human species through off-Earth settlement," a congressionally mandated report concludes the United States should go for it — but only under certain conditions.
NASA's human spaceflight program must take a disciplined and incremental approach toward the "horizon goal" of putting humans on Mars, the National Research Council's Human Space Flight Committee said in a congressionally mandated report (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18801) released Wednesday.
This "pathway" approach would involve specific intermediate accomplishments and destinations — likely to include the moon, an asteroid and perhaps Martian moons — with a clear eye toward the surface of Mars itself. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/human-spaceflight-mars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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