Life on Mars: NASA unveils ambitious plan for human colony

October 09, 2015 17:46

Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s, NASA has said. The US space organisation released its plan for establishing permanent settlements on the red planet, setting out in detail plans to create 'deep-space habitation facilities' which will act as stepping stones to Mars. In a new report entitled 'Journey to Mars' NASA said the mission was 'historic pioneering endeavour' similar to the early settlers in America and Moon landing.

In the coming decades the space agency will continue to gather information from experiments aboard the International Space Station, so that crews can live in deep space without health problems from radiation and the effects of micro-gravity.

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