NASA Just Released Their Latest Plans to Get Humans to Mars
Pixabay IN BRIEF On March 28, NASA published an article outlining its most recent plans to get to Mars. The plan consists of two phases, an exploratory stage and the actual mission to Mars phase, with both hinging upon the creation of a "gateway" in lunar orbit. THE LONG GAME When Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, revealed his plans to make humans an interplanetary species by going to Mars , the whole world took notice. But when NASA unveiled its new plans for getting to Mars, they barely registered on the global radar. Click to View Full Infographic These details on just how NASA plans to bring humans to the Red Planet came via an article published on the organization’s official website on March 28. While the agency may be treading lightly in the publicity department these days due to the political climate , it has already received a clear mandate from the government to get humans to Mars by 2033 . “There’s now ...