Last year was quite remarkable
for space researches. Amongst them, many crucial efforts were made by NASA to announce
its plans to land humans on Mars in the 2030s, and then breaking the Internet
when they put a call out for people to sign up. Within some years, NASA could
be sending astronauts to Mars. NASA unveiled the class of astronauts enrolled
in 2013 and are being trained now, these astronauts are nominated for the first
trip to Mars. Four of the eight candidates, NASA announced are women.
And these will be trained for
two years before they'll officially join NASA's 46 currently active astronauts.
These candidates will be
trained extraordinarily, their training includes how to tackle such unusual
conditions.
At the end of the last year,
McClain said “If we go to Mars, we’ll be standing on the behalf of our entire
species in a place we’ve never been before. For me it’s the greatest thing a
human being can experience.”
Jason Crusan, the director of
advanced exploration systems at NASA told "It's not like the Moon, it’s a
three-day trip. When you go to Mars, you're going. You can't abort."
It is evaluated that this
voyage is about 56 million kilometers one way, which will take six to nine
months. The astronauts would make this journey successful in case if they
brought valuable information about the red planet. Otherwise, it would be like
to receive a title of one of the humans to step on Mars for the first time.
Meir said that this idea of
exploring Mars has always been a part of the human interest. It can tell us a
lot about our planet Earth and can help to understand our place in the
universe, what drives me more than anything.
Mccain added to this by saying “From
space, you can’t see borders. What you see is this lonely planet. Here we all
are on it, so angry at one another.
I wish more people could step back and see
how small Earth is and how we rely on one another.”
