Summary
My article was about the NASA’s plan to accept applications to be astronauts and to go to Mars. People applying for it need to be United States citizens and to be pretty smart and accomplished such as pilots. In addition to these, they will have to pass the physical test.
Opinion
Firstly we asked each other in the group if we want to go to Mars in the class. Some said that they want to go to Mars to meet aliens. That was interesting idea for me because I do not believe in existence of alien. In my opinion, I do not want to go there with some costs and stay in Earth to keep myself safe. Not believing in aliens, I am afraid I do not have any reason to leave from space. On the other hand, a student in other group said that he wants to go to Mars and to see aurora. He told me that you can see it on north hemisphere of Mars. I found it interesting that there were many reasons to dreaming the journey to Mars.
Secondly we discuss what we human beings need to do to go to Mars. I think we have to develop our technology like that enabling us to breathe more easily. Mr. Brewster told us that most important thing for us in space is protection from radiation. It is very difficult to protect people from radiation by heavy metal and to make rockets lighter at the same time. In Earth, we hardly feel the danger of radiation from space thanks to ozone layer. I understood that there were a lot of difficulties we human beings have to overcome to go to Mars.
P.S.
I have a trivial question. I was told that NASA stood for North America Space Agency. I had assumed that NASA was the institution of United States, but I think North America means it includes not only United States but also Canada (maybe and Mexico). Isn’t NASA the institution of only United States?