As society mulls over the idea of going to the Moon or Mars, the debate is heating up about whether it's worth spending billions of dollars to send people to other planets if a robot or rover can do the necessary science. The scientific reasons for going to Mars can be boiled down to the search for life, understanding the surface and evolution of the planets, and preparing for future human exploration. Mars is an obvious target for exploration because it is close to our solar system, but there are plenty of other reasons to explore the Red Planet. Human exploration To reduce the costs and risks associated with human exploration of Mars, robotic missions can explore the future and help us find the potential resources and risks of working on Mars.
The Mars program will help develop space tourism by improving engineering skills for space docking, launch and reentry, as well as providing additional experience on the effects of space travel on the human body. The mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, which aims to study what NASA says is the most accessible planet. NASA's Mars Exploration Program Cuts President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) and Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget proposals, which could shut down all of the space agency's orbiters, as well as its only active Mars rover Curiosity, the rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012.
The Mars Exploration Programs budget isn't big enough to support a multi-billion dollar sample return effort, while it also runs Mars Odyssey, MRO, MAVEN and its only active rover at full capacity, says Richard Zurek, Mars chief scientist. at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a member of the MRO project. The amount of money Americans allocate to Mars is paltry compared to annual spending on other NASA projects, Munson said, noting that NASA spent more than $4 billion on the International Space Station and space shuttle fleet in 2011 alone. NASA's Human Mars Exploration Campaign will drop to $161 million (over $195 million in 2022) for long-range systems, including housing and human support.
NASA hopes to land the first humans on Mars by 2030, with several new missions launched before that to advance exploration. NASA is aiming for the 2030s as a reasonable time to put the first boots on Mars and is developing an Orion space capsule that can take humans to the Moon and beyond.
Exploration of the Moon and Mars, space technology and earth sciences are among the priorities of the required 2022. In 2004, when President George W. Bush was putting forward an ambitious plan that included manned missions to Mars, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (then a Democrat) said the billions of dollars NASA would need were better spent. "for health, education and national security.
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