NASA Chief Foresees Manned Mars Missions
From Times Wire Reports
Humans could venture to Mars in 20 years or less, NASA chief Daniel S. Goldin said at a symposium on the 40-year history of U.S. human spaceflight.
He detailed NASA’s plans to launch a precision lander spacecraft toward Mars in 2007, with Martian samples to be collected and returned to Earth by 2009 to 2011.
During the next five or six years, he said, scientists would figure out how to surmount “unbelievable health problems” on the International Space Station and how to escape Earth orbit with humans aboard.
