Will NASA Ever Send People to Mars?

50 years on from the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA still appears decades away from sending people to Mars. Is a 21st century Apollo-style project necessary to reach Mars, or could there be another way? When might the first people land on the red planet?

On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, aspiring Martian Colonist Ryan MacDonald hosted a special live stream to answer your questions about the next giant leap in human spaceflight.

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*Artemis program background (NASA):
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/moon2mars/

*’NASA’s full Artemis plan revealed: 37 launches and a lunar outpost’ (Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/nasas-full-artemis-plan-revealed-37-launches-and-a-lunar-outpost/

*’NASA picks three companies to attempt Moon landings in 2020 and 2021’ (Ars Technica):
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/nasa-picks-three-companies-to-attempt-moon-landings-in-2020-and-2021/

*’Bridenstine estimates Artemis cost at $20–30 billion’ (SpaceNews):
https://spacenews.com/bridenstine-estimates-artemis-cost-at-20-30-billion/

*Blue Moon:
https://www.blueorigin.com/blue-moon

*’Blue Moon: Here's How Blue Origin's New Lunar Lander Works’ (Space.com)
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-blue-moon-lander-explained.html

*’Evaluation of a Human Mission to Mars by 2033’ (Independent report):
https://www.ida.org/idamedia/Corporate/Files/Publications/STPIPubs/2019/D-10510.pdf

*'Space Colonization Using Space-Elevators from Phobos':
https://space.nss.org/media/2003-Space-Colonization-Using-Space-Elevators-From-Phobos.pdf

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Various sources, links available upon request.

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