Remember JFK's legacy saying ''by the end of the decade, we're going to send a man to the moon and back.'' , Yeah ?
U.S. Partnering With Private Firms to Send Humans to Mars by 2030s, Obama Says
Barack Obama wants to take one more giant leap for mankind — this time to Mars.
The president announced Tuesday that the U.S. is partnering with private firms with the goal of "sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and returning them safely to Earth, with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time."
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a senatorial campaign fundraiser event for U.S. Representative Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in Chicago, Illinois, on October 9, 2016. JONATHAN ERNST / Reuters
"This week, we'll convene some of America's leading scientists, engineers, innovators and students in Pittsburgh to dream up ways to build on our progress and find the next frontiers,"
Obama wrote in a CNN op-ed announcing his plans.
The public-private partnerships will come together at the White House Frontiers Conference, a science and technology convention co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Obama will go to the conference on Thursday.
Obama has long made space exploration a priority of his administration. He first challenged NASA to send American astronauts to Mars in a 2010 speech at the Kennedy Space Center.
"I expect to be around to see it," he said at the time.
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