ASTRONAUTS DISCHARGES: We could have settled on Mars for several decades, and here's why we did not do it | planet

Yet there are legitimate reasons why a human foot has not yet moved on the red planet, he says.

"The technology that brought us to the Middle Ages could bring us to Mars," said the astronaut who spent 166 days in space.

Vernher Fon Braun, who developed the rocket "Saturn V", also worked on plans for a human mission to Mars in 1952. However, one has the rocket that could, and the other question is how easy it is to run, if it is safe and risky to risk human life, and all of these issues come together. apply to new flies.

However, as this astronaut said, even though it was possible to go on Mars, that does not mean that it would be easy, safe and that it was worth the risk of the human life.

"Most of the astronauts we would send to these missions would not end the mission, they would die," he said.

He also states that the risks that existed then exist even now, but in recent decades, scientists have realized that there are long-term dangers of traveling in the universe, as the # Long-term exposure to cosmic radiation.

While Mesec is only a few days away, the Mars mission with return to Earth could last from 500 days to three years.