Manned launches to the Red Planet can be carried out no earlier than 2050. Igor Burenkov, an employee of the state corporation Roscosmos, spoke about this.
According to Burenkov, it is possible to speak about sending astronomers to Mars only in the middle of this century. The better the scientists' developers are, the faster the launch will take place.
To date, only devices created within the framework of the ExoMars-2016 project have reached this planet. The Russian-European mission was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome using the Proton-M rocket on March 14 this year. Unfortunately, communication with the device was lost on October 19 at the time of landing on the surface of Mars.
The next ExoMars mission is scheduled for 2020. Then, experts will try to send only a landing platform and a European rover to the Red Planet. The researchers intend to learn about drilling and Martian soil.
Galitskaya Alla