Thats 14 years from now. We are talking about humans in the martian and environment in the 20 80s. And we are going to do that we are talking about humans in the 2030s. We are going to do that. But there are all kinds of precursors. How many of you saw the movie, the martian . Did you read the book . Those of you who read the book know that mr. Weir in his book gives you what nasa has been doing for the last 40, 50 years. Its called precursors. Every time you turn around we are sending another satellite. It is either going to be in orbiter or a lender. Curiosity yet landed. In 2020 we will launch another rover. Collecting samples from the martian soil. We have to figure out how to get it and bring it back here. Before we send new horizon to pluto before we sent new horizon to pluto back in july, it just keeps going. It was a long journey. Nine years to get there. Things that we want to do now is increase the speed. So i need young men and women interested in another way to get to mars.
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