NASA Wants To Set Up Research Base By 2030 Not Planning Permanent Mars Colony

Admin 26-Mar-2016 11:49:07 Inothernews

NASA Wants To Set Up Research Base By 2030 Not Planning Permanent Mars Colony


NASA has said that its astronauts will set foot on Mars to set up a research and operations base, and not a permanent colony. According to the space agency's current plans, the Mars outpost will serve as a hub to accommodate astronauts on a temporary basis. NASA hopes to set up the base by 2030s, that will be used as for researched based operations. A colony is "a long way down the road. No one's thinking of, on the NASA side, like a permanent human base," said Ben Bussey, the chief exploration scientist at NASA's Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate.



He further added, "The idea here is that you would have your exploration zone that you set up for the first crew," Bussey added. "And that crew would leave, and then you send another crew at the next good launch opportunity. So it isn't permanently occupied, but it is visited multiple times."

That being said, one hopes that whenever the time comes, the Martian aim to permanently put humans on the Red Planet goes through.

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