Starman
May 24, 2007, 10:08 PM
What is the target year if any for the first manned exploration?
Capuchin
May 24, 2007, 10:31 PM
NASA doesn't have a target date, they plan to revisit the moon in 2015 at the earliest.
A ground-based biomedical experiment Mars-500 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars-500) simulating manned flight to Mars will start in winter 2007 in Russia.
The European Space Agency has the long-term vision of sending a human mission to Mars by 2030, the Aurora Program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Program).