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Mike Wehner
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- NASA and the European Space Agency, in addition to other space agencies, have been studying Mars for a long time with both rovers and orbiters.
- Crewed missions to the Red Planet are eventually going to happen, but the technology for such a mission doesn't yet exist.
- A company out of Seattle is working on nuclear technology that could be used to make missions from Earth to Mars (and back again) much quicker than it ever has been.
Mars has long been the subject of study by scientists here on Earth, and over the years space agencies like NASA and the ESA have developed orbiters and rovers that have provided us with a detailed look at what the Red Planet has to offer. Crewed missions with a team of astronauts ready to explore Mars are a dream, but they're a dream that may come true sooner rather than later.
NASA has suggested that crewed missions to Mars may be possible by the 2030s, but one of the biggest hurdles that need to be scaled is the lengthy trip time. Rover missions to Mars take over six months, even when our planet is in the perfect position to launch a mission, but crewed missions are expected to take even longer. That is unless we can figure out a way to make spacecraft move faster.
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