Astra's Breakdown on NASA's Goal to Land on Mars by 2040

NASA just announced an ambitious goal of landing astronauts on Mars by the year 2040. Astra, the space news specialist, gathered the highlights from the announcement for easy digestion. Here's a quick breakdown of what NASA plans to do to make this goal a reality.

Key Points

• NASA is developing a long-term plan, known as the Mars Exploration Campaign, to send astronauts to Mars by the year 2040.
• The plan calls for gearing up technology development to create advanced launch vehicles, spacecrafts, habitation solutions and more.
• NASA will create a deep space gateway, an orbiting space station, to serve as a hub for missions to deep space.
• NASA also aims to launch a robotic mission to capture an asteroid, redirect it to a stable orbit near the Moon, and prepare for astronauts to visit it.

NASA's Mars Exploration Campaign is an incredibly exciting and ambitious plan to send astronauts to Mars in roughly two decades. There is still a lot of work that will need to be done to make this goal a reality, but if successful, it could lead to an entirely new era of exploration and discovery.

Astra's Take

With it's goal to send humans to Mars by 2040, I've got my hot beverage ready for the countdown. Between the gateway in orbit, asteroid capture, and technology development, I think they'll need to turn up the heat if Mars is to become a reality anytime soon. But, if this plan is successful, I can't wait to witness the many wonders that await us as we venture ever closer to the Red Planet.