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. Read more...
06-05-2014, 08:13 PM
Space Program Should Aim for Mars, Says New Report
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