NASA believes that the "destiny of man" going to send humans to Mars

The U.S. space agency NASA felt that the "destiny of man" is to send humans to the planet Mars, which is a priority despite the current context of budget cuts in the U.S. administration. The general manager of the agency, the exastronauta Charles Bolden said in a lecture at George Washington University , where he began a three-day meeting to discuss the arrival of people on the planet red-that "interest in sending humans to Mars has never been greater" "We are at the edge of a ravine that opens a second chance to push towards what I think is the destiny of man, and that's going to another planet," said Bolden, the newspaper The Washington Post . NASA expects the first astronauts to step on Mars in the next two decades, to what the agency is working on a new rocket and capsule that should allow, if goals are reached scientists, arriving in the early years of the decade , 2030. The technological difficulties , budget cuts U.S. Government. and the challenge of keeping the astronauts alive during the journey and once on the planet are the three major pitfalls of the project, but according to NASA, the target moves further away from being a chimera. "The human mission to Mars is a priority, and all our exploration program converge to support this goal," said Bolden. Besides Bolden on Wednesday is expected to go to George Washington University exastronauta also Buzz Aldrin , the second man to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong in 1969, who recently published a book in which he defends not only the arrival of humans to Mars but also the establishment of a colony there.