NASA reveals detailed plan to send humans to Mars

In a revolutionary new document released by the space agency, NASA has just detailed how it plans to send humans on the Red Planet. “Today, we are publishing added particulars about our journey to Mars program and how we are aligning all of our operate in assistance of this aim”.

“In the coming weeks, I look forward to continuing to discuss the details of our plan with members of Congress, as well as our commercial and our worldwide and partners, many of whom will be attending the global Astronautical Congress next week”.

The plan anticipates three phases, each moving humans closer to Mars, with an arrival date sometime in the 2030s, if all goes well.

The Earth Reliant phase will focus on research being conducted aboard the global Space Station (ISS). Primarily operating in cislunar space-the volume of space around the moon featuring numerous doable steady staging orbits for future deep space missions-NASA will advance and validate capabilities expected for humans to live and operate at distances a lot farther away from our residence planet, such as at Mars. It will require NASA to work with private sector and global partners, including the 12 other space agencies seeking to expand humanity’s reach in space.

The Proving Ground step will be especially key to ensuring the transportation and habitation capacities created will be suitable for the journey to Mars.

To prepare for the Mars mission, NASA is sending astronauts to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

What makes a planet habitable, according to the engineer, is the presence of a solid crust, an atmosphere and liquid water on its surface, conditions that until now were only known to exist on Earth.

“We see evidence of about 250 feet (75 meters) of sedimentary fill, and based on mapping data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and images from Curiosity’s camera, it appears that the water-transported sedimentary deposition could have extended at least 500 to 650 feet (150 to 200) meters above the crater floor”. “Our challenge is to figure out … what happened to that wetter Mars”. The report is presented as a strategy that “charts a course toward horizon goals while delivering near-term benefits and defining a resilient architecture that can accommodate budgetary changes, political priorities, new scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs and evolving partnerships”.

He’s so concerned that he thinks we need to get off Earth and become a multi-planet species as quickly as possible, according to a post written by blogger Tim Urban called How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars.

NASA acknowledges the way to Mars will not be easy, but it maintains its goal is realistic. Musk says we can’t afford to wait around and find out. Is it now? Could it be a secure property for humans one particular day? Further, this step will help NASA better understand the health risks associated with deep space travel-astronauts who make the journey to Mars will spend 1,100 days exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. “We once thought of the Earth as being simple too”.