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Buzz Aldrin dreams big for Mars

Mar

2010

Former lunar module pilot for Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, recently touted his vision to send humans to Humans_on_Mars Mars by 2019, in an opinion piece featuring on AOL News.

The 80 year-old referred to NASA administrator Charlie Bolden’s testimony to US congress that NASA is aiming for Mars - and Aldrin believes by July 20, 2019 (the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight to the moon) humans will be landing on the red planet.

In Aldrin’s opinion piece, he says: “The plan I've designed, called a unified space vision, contains ideas for the development of a deep-space craft that I call the Exploration Module, and development of a true heavy lift space booster evolved from the existing space shuttle”.

Please click here to read Buzz Aldrin’s opinion piece and his views on sending humans to Mars, courtesy of AOL News.

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