Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100415:23:03:00
Can send humans to orbit mars and return them safely to earth. and a landing on mars will follow. i expect to be around to see it. >> that's optimistic. we all hope to be there in 2030, i think. my question is, are we going to get to mars? and what does it take that we don't have? >> well, we have to develop new technologies. right now, we send humans to mars, it takes us ten months to get there. chris, one of my crewmates is developing a plasma rocket to take us to mars in 39 days. if you went under conventional technology to mars, whenever they have a solar explosion, our astronauts would ge...