“Our plan is to have humans walk on Mars by 2040,” Chief Executive Bill Nelson said in a statement following the release of the US government’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal. Nelson says an inflatable heat shield is being developed that could slow a spacecraft as it enters the Martian atmosphere and help it land safely on the planet’s surface. Also, according to the head of the department, NASA specialists are dealing with the issue of maintaining life on the Moon and Mars. Including NASA is considering options to provide continuous power supply to machinery and equipment with electricity, for these purposes it is planned to allocate funds from the state budget, which will be used to create the necessary infrastructure. Among other things, the US space agency is developing new engines that will speed up the transportation of astronauts to Mars.
