Space
Program Should Aim for
Mars, Says New Report
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.
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