Scientists Have Put an End to Human Flights to Mars

Russian scientists have expressed doubts that the human body can withstand a flight to Mars due to potentially serious health threats.

This was stated in an interview with TASS by the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Gennady Krasnikov.

"Of course, there is a future for manned space exploration. The Americans, and we with our Chinese partners, have programs for building lunar bases. Now Elon Musk is promoting a program for accelerated exploration of Mars. This is a more serious task because it is much farther away than the Moon. In fact, [to Mars] it's 250 days of flight at the second cosmic velocity. And the factors affecting [health] there are much more serious. There are heavy charged particles, and we don't know well how they affect the human body. And this flight [to Mars] still raises questions for us about whether the human body can withstand heavy charged particles in open space," said Krasnikov.