Former astronaut, the second man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin says that people could fly to Mars in the early 2030s, “but not if we sit around doing nothing”.

Aldrin says in the Times that USA should take the lead on an international minishuttle that could be used on European, Indian or Chinese rockets. “And we need to see a whole lot more sharing of our different experiences,” he admits.

“I believe that a mission to Mars would need a commitment to a permanent settlement of people who have signed up to spend the whole of their career on the planet,” Aldrin says.

Such a settlement would eventually be able to live off the resources there, which are far more plentiful and supportive of human sustenance than on the Moon, according to Aldrin. Mars has a little bit of an atmosphere and some ice under the dust and at the poles.

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