If in 1960 the first woman who wanted to become an astronaut was rejected at NASA, today women are writing a new history of flights into space. Half of NASA's future astronauts who have trained at the training center for the past two years are women. Will they also become members of the first human expedition to Mars?
The current group of people training to be astronauts is Us recruited in 2013. All of them half women, are potential candidates for the first human expedition to Mars, which he has Us planned to be implemented by the end of 2030. Four women were, along with their four male colleagues, on the tender for future astronauts selected from more than 6,000 candidates, and then they had to successfully complete two years of training at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
The distance between Earth and Mars is the shortest when the planets are in opposition, and is 56 million kilometers, for the way to mars and the astronauts will need six to nine months.
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Three out of four female astronauts who are potential candidates for an expedition to Mars are married, and two are also mothers. They say that the most difficult part of their expedition will be that they will be separated from their families and the planet Earth for so long. Of course, their job also has quite a few advantages, and one of them is a unique view of the universe. "You can't see borders from space. You can see our little, lonely planet where we're all mad at each other. If only more people could see from a distance, how small the earth is and how dependent we are on each other,” said astronaut Anne McClain.
