"We're searching for life on Mars."
"The answer to the question 'are we alone' is always going to be 'maybe,' unless it becomes 'yes.'"
Sending astronauts to Mars demands major advances in life support, radiation shielding, long-duration mission logistics, and surface habitats to enable months-long transit and sustained surface operations. Top science objectives for crewed Mars missions include searching for signs of past or present life, detailed geological investigations, assessing human health and performance in Martian gravity and radiation, and locating usable in-situ resources for air, water, and fuel. Achieving these goals requires coordinated technology development, mission architectures that address safety and sustainability, and alignment of public and private efforts to build operational capability for eventual human surface exploration.
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