People and Mars

Can People go to Mars?

A group of 45 space experts including former NASA employees and ex-astronauts meet at Standford University to discuss space exploration. The group agreed that NASA should focus more on human missions to Mars rather than human presence on the moon. An asteroid mission that NASA has proposed was also in talk. The group said the mission would be "foolish". It takes only 3 days for a trip to the moon while the asteroid trip could take months. The group said they did not want NASA to get bogged down on lunar missions and that they should focus on more Mars missions. The group also agreed that the USA needs more cooperation with other countries, including China. This meeting had taken place in 2008, so almost a year ago today. It seems that today, the same ideas are still shared among the space community.