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Humans to Mars by the 2030s? It’s one tall order

By Steven Nelson
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Humans to Mars by the 2030s? It’s one tall order

President Trump has ordered NASA to return Americans to the moon before making the United States the first country to send them to Mars. But massive challenges remain, threatening optimistic visions of another giant leap for mankind as early as the 2030s.

The early ‘30s could coincide with the second term of Trump’s successor, setting up a potential fulfillment of Trump’s vision akin to the first moon landing in 1969.

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