If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.
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Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.
You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
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