3. NASA Is Already On It
Okay, cards on the table, right now most private companies are just trying to catch up to NASA, the United States’ space-oriented genius factory. NASA, meanwhile, is already tinkering with the parts required to get some astronauts to Mars. Just last September, NASA announced the construction of the Space Launch System. The massive rocket, “will stand 322 feet tall, higher than the Statue of Liberty. It will produce 8.4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the equivalent of 13,400 locomotive engines, and be capable of carrying 154,000 pounds of payload, about the same as 12 fully grown elephants.” Even more tantalizing, NASA announced that the SLS would be used to deliver astronauts to “multiple, deep-space destinations.”
