"During our lifetime, the human race will succeed in reaching other planets in the solar system," said the head of NASA; "Let's burn into our minds that this civilization is not doomed to live only on one planet," he added
Humans will land on Mars in 20 years or less, NASA head Daniel Goldin promised today. At a symposium to mark 40 years of space flights, Goldin said: "Let's burn into our minds that this civilization is not doomed to live only on one planet. Let's burn into our minds that in our lifetime, the human race will succeed in reaching other stars and other bodies in the solar system. We will build robots that will leave the solar system for other stars, followed by humans."
Goldin outlined NASA's plans to launch a spacecraft to Mars in 2007, collect soil samples from the planet and return to Earth between 2009 and 2011. "In ten years, and by definition no more than 20 years, we will start writing history once again and we will not look back, but forward," he said.
