The space administration needs YOU – and your vision of what we should do on Mars:
“This is a two-way capability open to anyone,” says Doug McCuistion, director of the director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. “We’re absolutely serious about that. We want to hear from anyone who has an idea, not just the establishment.”
The MPPG is reluctant to speculate about what form the new missions will take, including whether they will begin with an orbiter or a lander, but the hope is to begin launching no later than 2020. “We’re not trying to write a roadmap for every mission we’ll fly through the next 20 years,” says [NASA’s John] Grunsfeld. “We’d hate to prejudice the process at this point by trying to make those kinds of predictions.”
The goal is to move towards having a human presence around the Red Planet in the 2030s, Grunsfeld adds.
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