Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100416:04:03:00
Can send humans to orbit, mars, and safely return them to earth. and a landing on mars will follow. i expect to be around to see it. >> well, that's optimistic for us all. we all hope to be there in 2030. what does it take to get to mars that we don't have? >> well, we have to develop new technologies. right now, we send humans to mars, it would take us ten months to get there. chris, one of my crewmates is developing a plasma rocket that would take us to mars in 39 days. if you went under conventional technology to mars, whenever they have a solar explosion, our astronauts would get fried. yo...