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If NASA is able to take care of the world, it is likely to reach the world in about 25 years.(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech)

About 25 years ago, it was said Tuesday, March, officials said Tuesday.

That's the only way to save the day, and it's possible that they could eat bones and blind eyes.

"The cost of solving these under-budget budgets, or slightly expanded budgets," said NASA Astronaut Tom Jones, who has flown on the four-space shuttle missions.

There are no other solutions in place to protect astronauts from cosmic rays, solar flares and radiation levels that are so high an outbound trip to Mars would result in the amount of radiation an astronaut could be exposed to over an entire year.

The agency must also be perfect for a space that can be easily transported.

Over the summer, NASA chief scientist Jim Green told USA TODAY that there were some people at the Red Planet by 2040. If it is not safe to travel to the planet farming and infrastructure possibilities there.

USA TODAY editor Katharine Lackey got a taste of what a trip to Mars might be like at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It's a 34-million-mile mission that can take nearly a year – one way.

more: I trained to be an astronaut on a mission to Mars at Space Camp. Here's what it's like.

NASA launched the InSight lander in May and expects it to land on Mars Nov. 26. It's the first spacecraft to analyze the planet's deep interior and is the first March landing since the Curiosity rover in 2012.

Elon Musk is also working on a Mars mission, optimistically saying SpaceX could have Mars spaceships as soon as next year. His supermodel astronaut Starman has now traveled past Mars in its cherry-red convertible Tesla, SpaceX announced earlier this month.

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