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President Barack Obama has said he wants to get to Mars by the 2030s, but his is the latest in a series of plans to get there. Every president seems to have a new idea of Mars exploration.

A Congressional committee this week tried to cut through the noise to get some clear messages about what to do. (Context: NASA fiscal 2014 budget is up for discussion, so this has budgetary relevance.)

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Louis Friedman, executive director emeritus of The Planetary Society (who co led theco leader of the Keck Institute for Space Studies Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study): Do the asteroid mission proposed by canada goose outlet miami NASA. It will launch four to five years from now. If done properly, it would be a great opportunity for humans to explore as well as for commercial opportunities in mining.

Paul Spudis,senior staff scientist at the NASA funded Lunar and Planetary Institute: Return to the moon. It close, so close to Earth that we can operate rovers by remote control. It a good spot to learn more about the solar system, and it provides practice for us in living off the resources of the land as it has water a tool for life support and energy.

Steve Squyres, Cornell University planetary scientistrenowned for his Mars rover research: Go to cislunar space, the area close to the moon. It an easily accessible spot in a restricted budget environment. Thinking beyond that is not realistic in the current budget environment.

Douglas Cooke, NASA former associate administrator for the exploration systems mission directorate: Re establish lunar exploration. The asteroid mission would not connect well with the long term strategy, but the lunar surface would as (like Mars) it is a hostile environment suitable for testing planetary exploration technologies.

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Should we take away from other NASA programs, such as astronomy or debris retrieval in orbit, to focus on Mars exploration? (Recall that Mars science was slashedin 2012, including the loss of participation in ExoMars.)

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Take a listen of the experts answers in full in the archived webcast (available here).

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