Human Mission to Mars Likely to Happen in Increments

"We need to stimulate the [American] public to be supportive” of a U.S. mission to Mars, Buzz Aldrin told the Human to Mars Summit 2015 this week. The veteran astronaut, who became the second man to walk on the Moon in 1969, said it was unlikely that simply announcing “a space program that is going to go to Mars” could work, saying the program needs to evolve in series of stages over the course of several years. According to NASA engineer Bret Drake, that is more or less the...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - jeudi 7 mai 2015