NASA admits it does not have enough money to carry astronauts to Mars

Getting to Mars has become NASA's new big goal. The space agency is even developing a rocket that allows them to reach the red planet, but unfortunately there is a problem that will delay everything: they do not have enough money.

This has been confirmed by William Gerstenmaier, the human exploration and operations administration of NASA, during a talk at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The space agency simply does not have enough budget to develop all the technology needed to accomplish a mission to Mars. In Gerstenmaier's words:

"I can not set a date for the arrival of the first humans to Mars, and this has to do with our budget. With only a 2% increase we do not have enough money to develop the systems that will allow us to live on Mars."

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This means that even if NASA perfects the technology needed to reach Mars (including its massive new SLS rocket), the problem is to descend to the red planet, to mitigate and, of course, the humans responsible for being the first to colonize Mars Can subsist there.

US politicians are obsessed with the idea of NASA coming to Mars, especially to be able to say with pride that they were the first to do so. Congress asked NASA that by 2030 the first humans would step on the red planet, while President Donald Trump was even more demanding when he asked for this to take place during his first presidential term, or what is the same , In the next four years.

However, if the space agency does not have a budget to develop the technology and systems needed to travel and colonize our neighboring planet, it simply will not happen. At least not for a long time.

That is why Gerstenmaier proposes to carry out a series of missions to explore the Moon meanwhile, with the idea of installing a base and, more important, to create a shuttle system in the lunar orbit that serves to propel the space missions that will travel to Other planets.
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