expedition

“We are much closer today to being able to send humans to Mars than we were to being able to send men to the moon in 1961, and we were there eight years later. Given the will, we could have humans on Mars within a decade.” -Robert Zubrin Of all the planets in the Solar System beyond our own, none has captured our imagination quite like Mars has. Image credit: NASA, via http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA02570.jpg. From science-fiction fans to scientists and everyone in between, our understanding of the red planet is presently greater than it ever has been in the past. With multiple…