Even as the ISRO’s celebrated Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completes the fourth anniversary of its launch on November 5, 2013, space agencies have begun working on plans to colonise the Red Planet. HT interactive: Ride the MangalyaanAmerican space agency NASA also aims to send humans to Mars with the help of its “powerful” Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft by the 2030s. Astronauts will leave Earth aboard an Orion spacecraft that will be “carried aloft by the tremendous power of a Space Launch System rocket” in the not-so-distant future, NASA says on its website. SpaceX declined to answer queries regarding its work on long-term life support systems for Mars. Watch | Detailed SpaceX plans for multiplanetary life(With agency inputs)

Source: Hindustan Times November 05, 2017 09:45 UTC