Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
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?
I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.
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.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that's going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars.
Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.
People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.