NASA Releases , Blueprint for Future , Crewed Mars Mission.<br />NASA's upcoming Artemis Moon program <br />can be seen as a practice run for <br />an eventual crewed mission to Mars.<br />Gizmodo reports that the strategy for achieving <br />this daunting task was detailed in a revised list <br />of planning objectives for Artemis and beyond.<br />Gizmodo reports that the strategy for achieving <br />this daunting task was detailed in a revised list <br />of planning objectives for Artemis and beyond.<br />On September 20, NASA released <br />a blueprint for sending humans <br />to Mars in the not-too-distant future.<br />According to NASA's "Moon to Mars" strategy, <br />the space agency will use technology and skills acquired <br />in Moon missions to launch a crewed Mars mission. .<br />That historic mission to the Red Planet <br />is tentatively scheduled to launch <br />in the late 2030s or early 2040s.<br />The recently-released list of objectives spans, "multidisciplinary science, transportation <br />and habitation, lunar and Martian infrastructure, <br />operations, and a new domain: recurring tenets.".<br />Gizmodo reports that the document <br />breaks objectives down into five categories: , recurring tenets, science, infrastructure, <br />transportation and habitation and operations.<br />We’re helping to steward humanity’s <br />global movement to deep space, Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, via Gizmodo.<br />The objectives will help ensure a long-term <br />strategy for solar system exploration can <br />retain constancy of purpose and weather <br />political and funding changes, Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, via Gizmodo.<br />According to a NASA press release, the objectives <br />reflect a "matured strategy" for developing a plan for , "sustained human presence and <br />exploration throughout the solar system."
