Making It
For more than 50 years , Americans have looked to the skies in wonder as explorers push further to understand the universe .
Missions to the moon , probes to deep space , the creation of the International Space Station , satellites launched to map the Earth and numerous other milestones have been achieved ; however , one mission was top of mind as President Obama addressed the nation through a CNN . com op-ed published in October 2016 : sending humans to Mars and returning them safely back to Earth by the 2030s . was some of the first received by researchers on Earth of the Red Planet . Since then , at least a dozen more probes , spacecraft or rovers have studied Mars providing endless material for scientists , as well as the creators of science fiction books and movies .
Today , the U . S . moves toward a new challenge as science fiction turns into reality .
Private industry has set a more aggressive goal , with SpaceX announcing plans to send humans to Mars by 2025 and colonize the planet within 100 years .
With aligned objectives between government and private industry , the countdown clock has begun ticking .
The Corridor ’ s Role
Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , NASA first sent a probe to orbit Mars in 1971 . Mariner 9 mapped the majority of the Martian surface and conducted atmospheric studies . This information
Companies and research institutions across the nation and globe are working to safely land humans on Mars . The Corridor region boasts several of these organizations , as well as the geographic advantage of Florida ’ s Space Coast .
The Space Coast moniker grew in Brevard County as Florida became synonymous with space exploration and human space flight took shape at Kennedy Space Center at
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