Nasa plans to send astronauts to Mars
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Oct. 28: It might sound like Hollywood science fiction, but Nasa is considering a new one-way mission in which astronauts will be sent to another world such as Mars to settle there for ever.
The US space agency has confirmed that it is carrying out feasibility studies to assess whether astronauts could be sent permanently to the red planet, or its moons, to establish human colonies under the ambitious project called the “Hundred Years Starship”.
The astronauts would be sent supplies from earth on a regular basis but they would have to become self-sufficient as soon as possible. The astronauts would have to embark on the mission knowing that they would never return to earth as the cost of returning would make the project prohibitively expensive.
Speaking at a conference in San Francisco, Mr Pete Worden, director of Nasa’s Ames Research Centre, recently said his division has received funding to start work on the project. “The human space programme is now aimed at settling other worlds,” he said.
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