NASA plans to land a man on Mars by 2035, agency scientists Jim Addams and Ellen Stofan said. Such plans are quite ambitious and difficult to implement. After all, the conditions in the spacecraft, which will fly to Mars for the first time with people on board, will be very different from all near-Earth space flights.
The Curiosity rover. Mars. © JPL-Caltech | NASA
For the first flight to the Red Planet with astronauts on board, a staging post will be needed, which will be the Moon or a large asteroid near the Earth. Scientists insist: Mars should be visited and studied by humans. After all, artificial intelligence is not enough to fully explore this planet. Only in this way will humanity be able to learn about the possibility of the existence of life on the Red Planet.
Neil Armstrong is the first person to visit the moon. 1969 year. © NASA | Reuters
Recall that it was the American Apollo 11 spacecraft that made the first flight to the moon with people on board. On July 21, 1969, the first step on the moon was made by Neil Armstrong, the commander of this ship.