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## Video: Buzz Aldrin Has A Plan To Help Us Get To Mars

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_Published 2015-08-28. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has joined Florida Institute of Technology faculty to research the process of getting to Mars._


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## Transcript

Some people go to Florida to retire. Buzz Aldrin is there to figure out how to get to another planet. Aldrin has joined the Florida Institute of Technology to spearhead its Mars settlement research efforts. He's faculty now. A research professor of aeronautics. His qualifications include a Doctorate of Science from MIT and, you know, being the second person to walk on the moon. FIT's new Buzz Aldrin Space Institute will focus on a concept Aldrin calls cycling pathways to occupy Mars. It outlines a step- by- step mission chain to get humans to the red planet. The proposed architecture establishes pathways of progressive missions to cis- lunar space, asteroids, Phobos, and eventually to the surface of Mars.

And I expect that this space institute will, I hope, feed it's inputs into NASA through the NASA. Missouri Council. In other words, Aldrin isn't proposing FIT start up its own space program but throw its resources behind existing ones. That's for the best because getting to Mars will take an enormous amount of resources and Capital. Remember how the non- profit Mars One proposed a permanent human colony on Mars by 2027? Independent analysis by researches at MIT showed it's plans came up many billions of dollars short, and relied on technology that haven't even been developed yet. SpaceX has eyes on Mars too.

Or Elon Musk at least sees it as a necessity. He envisions humans on Mars within 10 to 12 years. But the thing that really matters in the long term is to have a self sustaining city on mars to make life multiplanetary. But exactly how and how much that might cost SpaceX still hasn't said. In January Musk said his company would lay out plans for its Mars Colonial Transporter some time this year. NASA, meanwhile, has arguably the best shot at actually making it work. Space News reports its plans look a lot like those Aldridge Has laid out. Before it sends astronauts to the Martian surface, NASA will run proof of concept test between earth and the moon and Mars' orbit.

If they go according to place, NASA says human could land on Mars by the mid 2030's.

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