Robots, Humans and the Future of Space Exploration

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During a public event at NASA Headquarters, televised on NASA TV, agency officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station celebrated the one year anniversary of The Mars Curiosity Rover's landing on Mars and discussed how its activities and other robotic projects are helping prepare for a human mission to Mars and an asteroid.

During a public event at NASA Headquarters, televised on NASA TV, agency officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station celebrated the one year anniversary of The Mars Curiosity Rover's landing on Mars and discussed how its activities and other robotic projects are helping prepare for a human mission to Mars and an asteroid.

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The discussion focuses on the steps that will be required for NASA to put humans on Mars by the 2030's.  Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science for NASA enthusiastically went over some of the past robotic missions to Mars, like Pathfiinder and Curiosity.

"Our future is really in our hands. Our destiny is to leave low-earth orbit, and trek out into the solar system," Green says.  "The solar system is ours - let's take it."

Curiosity is presently headed to the base of the five kilometer high Mount Sharp to conduct further exploration.  In the future a new rover like Curiosity, with more instruments will be launched. Green says this mission will launch in 2020.

Mars exploration in the future

SOURCE  NASA

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