NASA budget: why are we trying to go to Mars and what are the next activities in space exploration?

After President Donald Trump unveiled his budget proposal on Monday, NASA had its own event. The agency plans to build a space station in orbit around the moon, send humans back to the moon by 2028 and send them to Mars.

NASA has been exploring Mars for over 20 years with rovers, but Ellen Stofan, director of the National Air and Space Museum and former chief scientist at NASA, says that the only way to fully explore Mars is to go back and forth. send humans.

We talked with Stofan about the last episode of Today, explained, where she discusses NASA's strategy on Mars, her relationship with Elon Musk and her dreams of distant space exploration.

You can listen to the full episode here, or on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts.

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