... to lack of fuel needed to return home to earth. So if we can't make it back Mars, why not just make the trip a one-way trip to planet. The probability is being talked among many who believe that Mars could be an adaptive place for initial colony of four astronauts to live. Equipped with a small nuclear reactor, a couple of rover ... vehicles, the few could make their own oxygen and food to survive on the planet. Obviously this might not be that simple due to constraints on possibilities of things going wrong. With so many different situations that could go wrong, you can imagine many as...

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