mars missions
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Mars Missions Could Have a Negative Impact on Astronaut’s Cognitive and Emotional Skills
Human space missions to Mars are the next great leap in space exploration, with Nasa targeting the 2030s as a reasonable time frame for taking the first humans there. But boarding on a journey to Mars is not like catching a flight to New York. Space is an extremely hostile environment for human life –…
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Scientists Slam U.S. Congress’s New Plan For NASA
A recently proposed U.S. House bill that calls for NASA to send humans to Mars in 2033 is coming under fire from scientists who think it would be a mistake to assign secondary importance to a lunar mission and to neglect technological contributions from the private sector.