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First human to land on Mars could be a woman, NASA administrator suggests
When NASA sends humans to planet Mars for the first time in more than half a century, a woman could be the first human on the moon.
This was revealed on Tuesday by NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine, who also noted that It won’t be long before we see the first woman on Mars, and she just might be the first human there.
“We could very well see the first person on Mars be a woman,” Bridenstine told reporters during a news conference about the first all-woman spacewalk. “I think that could very well be a milestone,” he added.
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NASA currently has no concrete plans for landing humans on Mars — the moon is the agency’s first priority — but Bridenstine has said that the first crewed Mars landing could happen sometime in the 2030s.
Meanwhile, private spaceflight company SpaceX is working on its Starship Mars-colonizing rocket, which could help NASA send those astronaut pioneers to the Red Planet.
“If my 11-year-old daughter has her way, we’ll have a woman on Mars in the not-too-distant future,” Bridenstine said, adding that whoever ends up going to Mars is probably too young to have already been selected to join NASA’s astronaut corps at this time. However, the soon-to-be first woman on the moon will likely be selected from NASA’s current pool of active astronauts.
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