10:23 pm UTC Dec. 30, 2020
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Elton John might have said it best in his iconic song Rocket Man – Mars ain t the kind of place to raise your kids.
More than 50 years after we sent humans to the moon – the closest celestial body to Earth – the plan is still to head to Mars, something many astronauts who have flown in space thought we would have already accomplished. I just assumed by the time I got to be old enough to go into the space program, you know we d be living on Mars or I d be working on Mars just as a scientist, Mae Jemison, the
4:15 pm UTC Dec. 29, 2020
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Elton John might have said it best in his iconic song, Rocket Man Mars ain t the kind of place to raise your kids.
More than 50 years after we sent humans to the moon the closest celestial body to Earth the plan is still to head to Mars, something many astronauts who have flown in space thought we would have already accomplished. I just assumed by the time I got to be old enough to go into the space program, you know we d be living on Mars or I d be working on Mars just as a scientist, Mae Jemison, the