Space Program Should Aim for Mars, Says New Report
 

Space Program Should Aim for Mars, Says New Report
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After weighing the costs and dangers 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 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...

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