The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mars is key to humanity's future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.
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.
As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on 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.
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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