A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has laid out possible priorities and practicalities of a human mission to Mars. As well as setting out a key priority for such a mission – searching for extinct or even extant life on the Red Planet – the report delves into what the first human mission to Mars could look like, including an ambitious 300-sol mission. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The report first outlines what the top priorities of a human mission to Mars should be. While this may seem pretty obvious, the primary objective of the Moon landing in 1969 was, ultimately, to place humans on the Moon and return them safely. For landing on Mars, the National Academies of Science

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