The british magazine “All About Space” has made “Destination Mars” the topic of this month’s edition. Robert Zubrin (Mars Society) and Gernot Groemer (Austrian Space Forum) provide an insight into current status of manned flights to Mars. These plans cover – apart from big space agencies – private initiatives ranging from technical concepts like “Inspiration Mars” of the American space tourist Dennis Tito up to the very ambitious plans of “Mars One”. Dutch Bas Lansdorp is the initiatior of the last one, although the realisation seems to be rather unlikely.

Projects of the Austrian Space Forum – additional to its scientific publications – are getting more and more recognition on an international scale. The American magazine “Popular Science” is planning a big article in a next edition. This magazine is distributed in 45 countries and the print edition alone reaches more than 6 million readers.

Articles like that show us, that scientific and public interest on manned flights to Mars is rising

so Gernot Groemer,

“it is now our duty to transfer this interest into space policy.”

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