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This R&D provides resources on a planned U.S. manned mission to Mars. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning a mission that would see future astronauts land on an asteroid in 2025 and go to Mars in 2030. Doing so will require significant technological advances and a long-term vision by American politicians to fund such a mission, but the popularity of Matt Damon’s recent film The Martian may help to give momentum to the idea of putting an American on Mars by the end of NASA’s time frame.
Only on AP: NASA consults U.S. Navy submarine force to prepare astronauts for Mars mission: http://t.co/Ss0R57waSi
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 5, 2015
Mars is pretty clean. Her job at NASA is to keep it that way. http://t.co/n7fcT85EM7 pic.twitter.com/avMaaLZzfx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 6, 2015
This graphic shows all the ways Mars will try to kill us (if we ever get there) http://t.co/jPYmwILBd6 pic.twitter.com/VVNwpGF99E
— TIME.com (@TIME) October 4, 2015
NASA’s PR machine for Mars goes into overdrive https://t.co/D8Kzamrjkq pic.twitter.com/ieYfkzRZRt
— Bloomberg Business (@business) October 1, 2015
We talked to Matt Damon about spacesuits, NASA and playing an astronaut in the @MartianMovie http://t.co/zLD52zqUIc pic.twitter.com/2GC9dmz3iH
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 4, 2015
Sorry, Matt Damon, the plan to rescue someone from Mars hasn’t even been created yet: http://t.co/Slu24TNHJd pic.twitter.com/cBLWGZKGT4
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) October 3, 2015
NASA’s two active rovers on Mars are not thoroughly sterilized, and experts don’t agree on whether this is a problem. http://t.co/0Ew9wedNwa
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) September 30, 2015
What NASA’s discovery of liquid water on Mars really means—in the words of NASA scientists http://t.co/LvWj9v1Kbv pic.twitter.com/nw6fivRFp0
— Quartz (@qz) October 2, 2015
‘The Martian’ and Reality: How NASA Will Get Astronauts to Mars http://t.co/EbPXOVFezr
— SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) October 2, 2015
This heat shield from @NASA could get us to Mars! http://t.co/foHyXsaNjg pic.twitter.com/GIQMwyBvwp
— Popular Science (@PopSci) October 6, 2015