BRAIN DUMP
SPACE
Do you think we will see humans landing on Mars in our lifetime? And will we ever attempt to terraform it?
Kareem Dennis
■ NASA’s 2024 mission to the Moon is a stepping stone to a human mission to Mars. It’s possible that Mars will happen within 50 years, but there’s a huge difference between going to the Moon and going to Mars: three days compared to seven months in travel time, let alone the extra supplies and other considerations a Mars trip requires. We won’t see terraforming in our lifetime, unfortunately. NASA recently sponsored a study that concluded Mars terraforming isn’t possible with present-day technology and that “there is not
