Failure to launch

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3140, 2017, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Crane talks about NASA's current activities regarding its journey to Mars. Recently, NASA has admitted this journey is going nowhere fast. Last month, its chief of human space flight, William Gerstenmaier, acknowledged that the space agency doesn't have the cash to put people on Mars, even with small increases in its budget to keep up with inflation. This admission ruffled few feathers in the world of space policy, where the fact that NASA's Mars plans are vague and unlikely to come off is an open secret. After all, the current Journey to Mars campaign is just the latest in a string of unrealized exploration plans.