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Carberry, Chris, and Joe Webster. “Six essential reasons why we need to send humans to Mars.”

Fox News, FOX News Network, 17 Jan. 2017, www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/17/six-essential-reasons-why-need-to-send- humans-to-mars.html.

The main point of the article is to list the reasons why we need to send humans to Mars. It explains how the reasons fall into six categories. The authors are Chris Carberry and Joe Webster. Chris is the CEO and co-founder of Explore Mars, Inc. a nonprofit which was created to advance the goal of sending humans to Mars, and Joe is an attorney in private practice with a law firm in Washington, DC.

The article says that one of the reasons to go to Mars is for discovery and scientific knowledge. Another reason is for innovation and inspiration; meaning that a mission to Mars will inspire many future scientists, physicians, engineers and more. Next reason is for prosperity and national morale. It would greatly affect the U.S’s morale, which is crucial for the country’s development, if it were to reach Mars for the first time. It would be a national achievement, that everybody would be proud of. Security and diplomacy, is the fourth reason, since a strong space program can be a very safe and effective diplomatic tool. Then is for the expansion and advancement of humanity, since Mars is the best candidate for the human species’s next destination. Finally, to understand Earth.