Guest Post: When Will Man Lands on Mars? A human landing on Mars
will be possible by 2030, NASA officials assert. But this trip
remains a distant dream as national space agencies worldwide
face budget cuts. In a 2010 speech at the Kennedy Space Centre
in Florida, U.S. President Barack Obama said that exploration of
the planet Mars was a greater priority than the Moon. He said
astronauts could be sent to Mars by the mid-2030s and should be
able to return to Earth. Public Funding Collapse Two years
later, Obama announced a series of budget cuts that cancelled
joint U.S. and European missions that would land robots on Mars
in 2016 and 2018. The robots would have both explored the
surface of Mars and drilled below it. The European Space Agency
is now seeking Russian and Chinese cooperation for its Mars
missions. Meanwhile, officials from the Russian space agency
Roscosmos believe that manned missions to Mars will only be
possible through joint international efforts. Colonisation could
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