Sending Humans to Mars!
Augest 30, 2013
Natural History Museum Los Angeles
Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English!
I’m June Simms.
On our show today, we play some of the biggest hit songs of the summer.
And we visit a natural history museum in Los Angeles County, California, where living things are part of the show.
But first, we tell about new efforts to send humans to the planet Mars!
Sending Humans to Mars!
The International Mars Society recently held a four-day conference in the American state of Colorado. During the meeting, the American-based Mars Society announced a competition for university students around the world. The group is urging the students to help with plans for sending humans to Mars. Avi Arditti has more.
About six months ago the non-profit Inspiration Mars Foundation proposed sending humans to Mars within five years. Under the plan, a spacecraft would carry a woman and a man to within 160 kilometers of the red planet. Then, it would return them to Earth.
The crew is expected to be American. But the process of getting to Mars is an international effort.
The president of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin, made the competition announcement. He has asked that teams of students design a two-person Mars flight operation that could launch in 2018.
The designs will be judged on cost, quality, simplicity and timing. The Mars Society, Inspiration Mars and the American space agency will choose the judges.
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