NASA will take people to Mars in 2031

At a recent meeting in the city of Houston in the state of Texas, the US Air and Space Administration (NASA) published in detail the plan to bring people to Mars in the next few decades.

As planned, a small group of astronauts will arrive in Mars on a 30-month voyage , departing in February 2031 on a 400-ton spacecraft. The spacecraft is assembled at the low Earth orbit using 3 or 4 Ares V missiles - a new device that NASA is working on.

It takes 6 or 7 months to fly from Earth to Mars with the use of a coagulated fuel. However, many details can change, so the estimated cost fluctuates greatly, from 20 billion USD - 450 billion USD.

Bringing people to Mars has a particularly important meaning (Photo: BBC)

Supplies and whereabouts of Martian astronauts were put up ahead - December 2028 or January 2029. Astronauts will stay in Mars for 16 months, grow their own vegetables to eat and use nuclear power. They have to do a lot of work in daily life and work such as maintaining machines, including making parts or accessories for equipment. They are equipped with a ' closed loop ' system to serve life, in which air and water are reprocessed. NASA believes that planting trees also has astronauts' mental health benefits.

However, there are still many challenges in ensuring the safety of astronauts. NASA also has to deal with protecting them from the high levels of cosmic radioactivity in space and at the surface of Mars. They also need equipment to diagnose and treat illnesses or injuries. Some previous experiments on the moon will serve the above plan.

In 2004, US President George W. Bush proposed a program to bring people back to the moon by 2020.

L. NGUYEN