The Mars Scene: Mission Mars Nasa

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October 13, 2015, 10:19 PM |NASA has released a three-step plan for a manned mission to Mars. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood broke down the strategy for CBSN. GO For over a century, mankind has looked up at the reddish glow of our sister world and wondered what it would be like to walk on the red planet. For much of the 19th and even a portion of the 20th Century, mankind wondered what sort of beings, what sort of Despite all of NASA’s technological advances, it still predicts a manned mission to Mars is another two decades away. One of the main roadblocks is most of the technology that would allow astronauts to survive is still in the prototype phase. This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Big Sky" site, where its drill collected the mission's fifth taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images taken during the 1,126th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's NASA is hoping the film will bolster support for its real-life journey to Mars. The agency's lofty goal of sending a crewed mission to the Red Planet in the late 2030s relies heavily upon congressional funding. With an already flat budget, the agency is Last week NASA released Journey to Mars, an inspirational 36-page report that outlines Doug Cooke, former associate administrator of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, also said during the hearing that NASA's budget problems are largely .

Mars, despite its inhospitable climate and heavily irradiated surface that would kill humans in a matter of minutes, has been a source of unending fascination for scientists and science fiction writers alike. In recent years, this fascination has but the space agency has now revealed in greater detail how it plans to make such a mission reality. In a document titled "NASA's Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration," the expedition is broken down into three separate phases NASA wants to put people on Mars by the 2030s. Last week, they detailed how that might become a reality. In a report titled "NASA's Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration," the agency laid out a three-part plan on how it might reach Nasa on Thursday outlined the many challenges that remain before humans can set foot on Mars, calling the problems "solvable" but setting no firm date for an astronaut mission to the Red Planet. Updated details of the US space agency's Mars strategy were .