Obama spoke about the upcoming 2030-th year mission to Mars

The Government of the United States in cooperation with private US corporations organize an expedition astronauts on Mars by 2030-th year, and in the future they will be able to stay there for a long time, wrote President Barack Obama in an article published on Tuesday, 11 October, on the site CNN.

"We have set a clear goal, extremely important for the next stage of the history of space exploration America - sending humans to Mars in 2030-ies and safe return to Earth, to eventually one day, they were able to stay there for a long time, - says in the article -. to reach Mars, will require continued cooperation between the government and private sector innovators, and we are already working in this direction. "

"Over the next two years, private companies are first sent astronauts to the International Space Station. The next step will be going beyond the Earth's orbit. I am pleased to announce that we are working with our business partners to create new habitats that astronauts during their long missions deep space can be used as trans-shipment points. " "These missions show us whether a person's life can be away from the Earth - that will be needed for the long trip to Mars," - Obama said.

According to him, private companies carry out more than a third of space launches in the country. "More than a thousand companies, which are in almost all 50 states, working on private initiatives in the field of space," - wrote Obama.

This article summarizes the activities of Barack Obama as president, marking his contribution to the development of science. The head of the White House says that the United States won the space race by technological and medical advances, and inspired a new generation of scientists and engineers.

"It's one of the reasons that I swore in his first speech in the position of the US president to return to science place, its rightful," - he recalled. Obama spoke about investment in basic research, activation of the space program on the study of the solar system and the universe, the revival of innovative technologies in NASA, the extension of the work of the International Space Station. "We have helped US companies to create new jobs, earning untapped potential of the space industry," - wrote Obama.

It ends the article as follows: "Someday I hope to raise their grandchildren on the shoulders We'll look at the stars with surprise, as well as the people from time immemorial, but instead of waiting for the return of our intrepid explorers, we know what they are.. flew into space not only to visit but to stay there and thus make our life better here on Earth. "

On Thursday this week, leading scientists, engineers and inventors the United States will gather in Pittsburgh at a scientific conference organized by the White House in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon. There will be present, and Obama, said NBC News. Scientists will discuss prospects for the space program.

Today's announcement of the Mars mission is done the day after the publication of a study showing that the astronauts during long-term travel to Mars are at risk to get brain damage from cosmic radiation.

"Our findings provide additional evidence that the journey into deep space poses a real threat to the integrity of the neural circuits in the brain," - said in a report published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Obama said earlier on the flight to Mars. He first put this task in 2010, in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, presenting a new US space program. Then he called the same delivery time humans to Mars: "First, for the first time in history we will deliver astronauts to an asteroid, and by the mid 30s, I'm sure we can get people to Mars orbit safely return them to Earth and then carry out already landing on Mars ", - said the president.

Private companies referred to earlier. In late September, the US company SpaceX founder Elon Musk, speaking at the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, presented a plan for a manned trip to Mars, which is planned to be implemented in the coming decade.