In 10 years people will go to Mars

The deputy director of the Space Flight Center, Russian astronaut Pavel Vinogradov, confirmed that no later than 15 years, humans will fly to Mars.

In the press conference last Monday, he said: " If only purely technical, this can be done within 8-10 years, but the maximum is only 15 years '.

No later than 15 years people will go to Mars. Illustration.

According to him, it seems that flying to Mars cannot be within the reach of a country but a big project with international cooperation because of " technical difficulties and obstacles in protecting people." All have had a specific remedy ' .

Let's recall last fall, director of the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) Anatolii Perminov was also optimistic that the agency planned to make a combined flight to Mars after 2030. At that time, Perminov said: " In a joint statement signed in the field of manned space flights by space agencies 26 countries agreed that flights into distant space would be carried out one by one. Of course, if it is a single flight, now only the US, Russia, and China can do it, but if it comes from the financial ability and the reasonableness of competition, it must be cooperation programs '.

The director of the Russian missile group PKK ' Energia ' Vitalii Lopot also announced: ' The program for deploying space operations on Mars was drafted by PKK' Energia 'until 2040 with reference to processing. create an interplanetary exploratory complex (abbreviated MEK) with the control of orbiting around the Earth. MEK modules will travel from Earth to space and assemble right in orbit . '

In the past, Pravda also reported that the National Science-Production Space Center, named Khrunichev, had also planned to build super-heavy missiles to fly to Mars, on the basis of specialized missiles. ' Angara ' style, capable of bringing useful payloads to 120 tons on orbit around the Earth.

However, according to the scientists of the National Center for Scientific and Production Space, there is nothing more reasonable than continuing to deploy two space programs that were previously programmed around the Earth and Chapter. submit to the Moon.