![]() ![]() ![]() The first step is to land astronauts on an asteroid around 2024, then it hopes to land astronauts on the Red Planet in the 2030s. "If we put our mind to it we could be on Mars in 10 years." "We are actually far better prepared for Mars now than NASA was in 1961 as it looked to getting a man on the Moon before the end of the decade and returning him safely to the Earth again," Dr Clarke says. We are actually far better prepared for Mars now than NASA was in 1961 as it looked to getting a man on the Moon. Skills and technologies needed to get to Mars - such as space navigation, docking, and undertaking spacewalks - were developed during the Gemini missions to put a man on the Moon in Apollo. "We already have the skills and technology needed to take people to Mars, we just need to build it," says astro-geologist Jonathan Clarke from the Mars Society of Australia. Just how close to reality is a manned mission to Mars? In the film The Martian, marooned astronaut Mark Watney has to survive the Red Planet's harsh environment. ![]()
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