After reading the book and seeing the movie to “The Martian”, will we ever get a man mission to Mars? I’m sure we will but it won’t be right away. It’ll take many more years to figure it out, though.

For one, Mars is way too far from Earth. They would need a vehicle that is capable of travelling to Mars safely. It could be a very dangerous trip to get there. They would need to find a way to protect themselves from all that radiation and stuff like that. Mars is like 54.6 million kilometers from Earth which is pretty damn far. They did send probes over there but it can take between 200 to 300 days to get it over there.

http://www.space.com/24701-how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars.html

A manned mission to Mars will be very difficult. It’ll be difficult to leave Earth to travel to Mars and it’ll be difficult for Astronauts to survive. Meaning needing lots of fuel, supplies, food, etc.

When they actually get to Mars, they would need to build a good enough protective suit where it can be safe to walk around on Mars ’cause you never know how dangerous it is. You can’t just put on any random astronaut suit and walk around Mars ’cause it could kill you. You’ll have to know what the air is gonna be like and everything else. Plus there’s all kinds of dust storms on the planet as well. You don’t know how safe it is to walk around on the ground on Mars.

More here:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/31/getting-to-mars

Mars is an extremely cold planet so they would need an astronaut suit that is warm enough to walk around on which the technology could be difficult and challenging.

If they were to do a manned mission to Mars, they would need to do a lot of testing so I would think they would start sending animals over there first.

Travelling to Mars, landing on Mars and leaving Mars would all be pretty risky so it’s gonna take years of investigation. Sending all those probes over there is just the beginning of it. NASA was successful at travelling to the Moon ’cause it was easier and closer.

We’ll probably get a real life Mark Watney sometime in the future but not at this time.

Kev