NASA has announced a bold new step towards it's hugely ambitious plan to land the first humans on Mars in what it calls "humanity's next giant leap."
The space giant has established the new 'Moon to Mars Program Office' at NASA Headquarters in Washington, to carry out the agency’s human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars "for the benefit of humanity", it said in a statement released today.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement: "The Moon to Mars Program Office will help prepare NASA to carry out our bold missions to the Moon and land the first humans on Mars.