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In the beautiful speech given after being awarded the Oscar for best actor, Leonardo DiCaprio reminded us that it is necessary to take care of the Earth, before it is too late. There are, however, those who think of making humanity viable beyond our planet. the astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the moon in 1969 and believes that humans could soon inhabit it. colonies on mars.
In a talk at the Science Museum in London, Aldrin spoke about the steps and difficulties that a mission of this magnitude would involve. According to the former astronaut, one of the biggest challenges would be the long periods that the crew would have to stay on mission. Which would require immense sacrifices in the personal and family lives of those involved.
In addition, colonies on mars would have to be fully self-sufficient. "We know how to send people to Mars. The main question is how would they survive there?“, he stated. Aldrin explained that it would take a kind of “cyclic transport” to take astronauts and supplies to an outpost, but added that the possibility of reaching the planet is “so real".
Buzz Aldrin has been one of the biggest advocates for the NASA focus your efforts on developing colonies on mars. In March 2015 in the UK he posed for a photo at monument Stonehenge with the sentence: "Get your ass to Mars"(Take your “hearts” to Mars, in free translation). In his autobiography, the astronaut revealed having had several problems with depression and alcoholism in his post-Apollo 11 years, which contributed to his retirement from USAF.
Currently, Aldrin works as a speaker and has a prolific writing career. Your most recent book Mission to Mars was published in May 2013 and describes the plan for how humans would be able to colonize Mars until the year 2035. By “coincidence”, he believes that humans could land on the red planet in 2040, as for Buzz, the generation born around the year 2000 would be the most likely to make the first trips.
Martians beware!
