Mars Presence Essay

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NASA Strives for Long-term Mars Presence
Mankind has always had a desire to travel into space to go to the 4th planet from the son, Mars, and now NASA (www.nasa.gov) is determined to find a way to get a long-term Mars presence in the future. In order to accomplish a long-term Mars presence, man would have to be able to do much more than just travel to the Red Planet. So, NASA is soliciting ideas on what things would be needed to sustain humans in a long-term Mars presence.
NASA foresees the possible landing of a manned Mars mission by the 2030s and wants to be prepared to stay there for a long-term Mars presence. In order to get some innovative ideas on the topic, they have also instituted a challenge to space enthusiasts on a crowdsourcing platform called InnoCentive (www.innocentive.com) to get …show more content…

NASA is going to reward three winners of the challenge with $5,000 prizes, so there is a lot at stake for those who like thinking about a Mars travel in the future and who want to share in the adventure of getting humans there and back.
Anyone taking NASA up on this challenge of a long-term Mars presence solution will be dubbed a “solver.” They are to describe something that a Mars mission and sustained presence on Mars would need in order to achieve the goal of becoming economically sustainable and being able to somehow eliminate their requirements for support from Earth.
Solvers Need to Think Creatively about Solutions
Since help from Earth would be several hundred days away, the group of Mars explorers who would travel to the Red Planet would need to be able to operate essentially on their own for a long period of time. This means that the “solvers” will have to think about topics like food, oxygen, water, shelter, medical, communications and similar

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