To Mars and back

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September 2018

To Mars and back

The website of one of the leading technical universities in Europe, the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, has published a detailed plan for the colonization of Mars. Swiss scientists are sure that their program, designed to run for two decades, is the most realistic project of any existing today. Before the arrival of people on the Red Planet, robots would build a special facility there. The central compartment would be residential, designed to house six astronauts. They would arrive at the beginning of the polar summer to have almost 300 light days to do their work. The Swiss have located the site on one of Mars’s poles. The pole has more available resources to be used by the expedition team. In nine months, the colonialists would have to return to the spaceship, waiting for them in orbit.

The plan by Wernher von Braun, designer of the German "Fau" and the American "Saturn" is usually considered to be the first scientifically grounded project of manned flight to Mars, while the mission "Mars One" to be the closest in terms of its viability. A team of specialists led by the Dutch Bas Lansdorp are working on the mission’s implementation. However, the launch of even a test spacecraft is constantly being postponed and is now to take place in 2022 It is not designed to return the earthlings home, either...

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