According to an article in The Huffington Post, NASA is now aiming its efforts towards settling  on other worlds. NASA Ames Research Center director Simon Worden explained this during a convention in San Francisco.

NASA and the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are planning for what they call a “Hundred-Year Starship” program in which space explorers would get a one-way ticket to other planets.

Mars is the first planet on the list for potential settlement.

Worden had stated that he expects this goal will be accomplished within twenty years or so, hoping to have settlements on the… Continue reading →