The first humans could soon fly to Mars. NASA announces date

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is ready to send astronauts to Mars. This could happen in the third decade of the 21st century. Earlier, the American space agency conducted an experiment aimed at collecting appropriate data on the possibilities of functioning of the human body on this planet.

NASA could send astronauts to Mars

The first of three NASA missions focused on simulating human life on Mars has just been completed. More than a year ago, four people entered the capsule, which is a 3D simulation of the planet and simulates everything that happens in its conditions. The goal of the space agency’s program is to collect data on human health before astronauts are sent to the Red Planet.

The journey to Mars would take about nine months. NASA astronauts would spend more than a year on the planet. Their task would include collecting all the most important data and assessing the planetary alignment that would allow the spacecraft to land and take off.

Mars is being explored by NASA

According to the U.S. space agency, the journey to and from Mars will show the spacecraft’s odometer at nearly two billion kilometers. That’s more than a thousand times the distance traveled by Orion, the Artemis I spacecraft orbiting the moon. Space missions to Mars require greater energy requirements and more stringent departure time constraints than missions to the moon.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also called the Red Planet, because of its characteristic, rusty red color. It owes it to the presence of iron oxides on the planet’s surface. Mars has a similar season to Earth due to its axial tilt of 25.2 degrees. The weather conditions there are harsh, with a thin atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide. The temperature on the surface ranges from -125 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees.