{"id":19406,"date":"2016-04-15T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/get-your-cycler-to-mars-buzz-aldrin-lays-out-his-plan-to-settle-red-planet-in-2040\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:00:55","slug":"get-your-cycler-to-mars-buzz-aldrin-lays-out-his-plan-to-settle-red-planet-in-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/get-your-cycler-to-mars-buzz-aldrin-lays-out-his-plan-to-settle-red-planet-in-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your cycler to Mars: Buzz Aldrin lays out his plan to settle Red Planet in 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin addresses the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., with an Apollo-era picture of himself serving as a backdrop. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. \u2013 Nearly five decades after his first spaceflight, Buzz Aldrin is still thinking about the next giant leap to Mars. Today he shared his latest plan for sending astronauts to the Red Planet for regular tours of duty, starting in 2040.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom that point, we will always have humans living there,\u201d the 86-year-old Apollo 11 moonwalker told his audience at the 32nd Space Symposium here.<\/p>\n

The mission architecture, which Aldrin calls Cycling Pathways to Mars, relies on transfer spacecraft that cycle perpetually between the Earth-moon system and Mars and its moons.<\/p>\n

Aldrin got his Ph.D. in astronautics even before his first space mission, Gemini 12 in 1966, and helped work out the procedures for orbital rendezvous. His expertise on the subject earned him the nickname \u201cDoctor Rendezvous.\u201d For decades, he\u2019s been working on the Cycler concept for decades as a way to jump-start Mars exploration and settlement.<\/p>\n