THE moon landing celebrations are all very well, but now it’s time for a trip to Mars. So say Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
“Sometimes I think I flew to the wrong place,” said Collins at an event at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. “The moon is not a particularly interesting place,” he added. “Mars is the closest thing to Earth’s sister that we’ve found so far.”
Buzz Aldrin called for NASA to send astronauts to Mars by 2035. “I don’t think there’s…
