CEJ # 5

Caden

2-25-13

Human mission to Mars may be planned for 2018

By Elizabeth Landau
CNN
February 21st 2013
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/21/human-mission-to-mars-may-be-planned-for-2018/?hpt=us_bn1

Summary

A non-profit organization called the Inspiration Mars Foundation is starting to plan a human mission to go to mars.  Supposedly they are planning on launching in 2018 and be a voyage of 501 days to get there and back.  They are hoping to gain much more knowledge of the planet.  They didn’t specifically say that the voyage would be manned however they did say that they are committed to accelerating America's human exploration of space as a critical catalyst for future growth, national prosperity, new knowledge and global leadership.

Response

I think it would be great if man went to mars in 2018 however I am a sort of spectacle that they will actually send a man to mars that soon.  The main reason that i am not sure is that the people didn’t say that they were having someone go to mars they simply said they wanted to get someone there as soon as possible.  It would be great if a man could get to mars and back in that amount of time.  Hopefully that will be the case.