World's Space Agencies Plan Future Joint Manned Mars Mission

The world’s leading space agencies kicked off this year with a bold new plan to put humans on Mars in the coming decades

At a Jan. 9 meeting of the International Space Exploration Forum in Washington, D.C., countries including the U.S., Japan, China and Russia, as well as the European Union, agreed that putting humans on the red planet should be a longterm joint priority

Although the group did not decide on a specific date for a manned mission to Mars, the meeting of space-faring nations affirmed the expedition as a serious goal Read more...