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Monday 31 Aug 2015 - 16:03 Makkah mean time-16-11-1436
Buzz Aldrin (Google image)
Florida (IINA) – Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 U.S. astronaut and second man on the Moon after Neil Armstrong, is working with the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) to develop what he calls “a master plan” to colonize Mars in just 25 years.
While speaking on Friday at a signing ceremony to establish the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute at FIT in Melbourne, Florida, Aldrin, 85, revealed a new plan to colonize Mars, and wants humans to be living there by 2039 – the 70th anniversary of Apollo 11, according to Russia Today (RT) website.
Aldrin’s proposal is called Cycling Pathways to Occupy Mars. It involves using the Moon, asteroids and the Martian moon Phobos as stepping stones to getting to the surface. He envisaged that crews would rotate between Mars and Earth every 10 years. But he stressed that it wouldn't be “one-way trips;” rather, people would be able to come and go.
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in July 1969. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, while Aldrin spent slightly less than an hour and a half.
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