The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the ground can't participate minute by minute in Mars surface activities.
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Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.
Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.
Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.
We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
I think that when humans get around to exploring and building cities and towns on Mars, it will be viewed as one of the great times of humanity, a time when people set foot on another world and had the freedom to make their own world.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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