Mankind seems destined to one day set foot on Mars. NASA and other space agencies around the world are already making big plans for sending humans to the Red Planet, but we’re not nearly ready to actually stick human travelers in a ship and send them on the historic journey.
As the European Space Agency explains in a new blog post, it’s not just a matter of having the rocket and spacecraft technology available to push a crewed capsule to Mars; it’s the fact that anyone we sent on the mission today would almost certainly never live long enough to make it back to Earth. The killer? Radiation.
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If we sent astronauts to Mars right now they’d almost certainly die originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 11:17:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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