NASA has the plan to send the first humans to the planet Mars completely turned upside down by the US House of Representatives, which changed the way the missions should be carried out. NASA has decided that by 2024 it should welcome more astronauts to the MOON, including the first woman, and there to build a lunar base from which to prepare the sending of the first astronauts to the planet Mars in ships other than the ones they came with from Earth .
NASA has his ideas completely changed by those in the House of Representatives, and that's because they don't consider that a space station in the orbit of the Moon is necessary to send people to Mars. They would like NASA to send the astronauts from Earth to a space base further away from the Moon, and from there they would be sent back to the planet Mars in, probably, the same ship, or maybe in a different ship, which is more complicated.
NASA: Plan for the First Mission to Mars Completely Overlooked
NASA he wanted to buy from various American manufacturers, including the lunar modules with which the astronauts were supposed to move on the surface of the Moon, but it seems that the elected Americans don't like that either. They would like NASA to make its own lunar modules instead of buying them from other companies, putting even more pressure on the timetable that the space agency has in mind for both sending humans to the Moon and to Mars next year. decade.
"NASA's plan to return to the Moon in 2024 could be delayed, with a new proposal suggesting the US space agency reduce its focus on another lunar landing and focus on a human mission to Mars. One of the biggest changes envisioned by the bill is Gateway. It would no longer be in orbit around the Moon and would instead be known as the Gateway to Mars. Although it would still be used as a staging point for the eventual manned mission to Mars, the lunar landing service would no longer be required."
NASA they should have a much simpler plan to reach the planet Mars, if we were to judge by what the elected Americans say, but the reality is that everything that the experts thought was modified by simple people. NASA is not very happy with these changes, and of course it would not want the legislative proposal that makes these changes to be adopted, but it needs a lot of convincing work to fulfill its objective.
