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Originally Posted by ruff
A man on Mars by 2030. If we can put a man on the moon, we can put one on Mars. Hopefully before the Chinese do.
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It's complicated. Mars is pretty far away. We could go there now but the trip would take so long that they have to worry about astronauts going crazy, or bringing enough food, or dying from radiation exposure, and solar flares.
The bigger problem is getting back. It costs too much to take fuel to Mars for the return trip, so they would have to have a way to make the fuel while there. It would take time to make fuel so it would mean spending a long time on Mars, or sending automated machines to mars ahead of the astronauts that could land on mars, mine for resources, pump water, etc.
I think the only way to do it would be to find a much faster way to get there and back.