Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of 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.
I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.
We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.