T-Minus: How to not die on (the way to) Mars

Image credit: NASA / Freethink. Article by Kristin Houser. Freethink: T-Minus – May 17, 2024.

The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy told a crowd gathered at Rice University that the US wanted to put a person on the moon before the end of the decade because it was hard — but a challenge wasn’t all America was looking for with its moon mission. In that same speech, Kennedy also talked about how a moon landing — and everything that led up to it — would expand our knowledge of the universe and environment and lead to the development of new technologies with applications far beyond aerospace. […]

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