“I’m not talking about a visit to Mars, or about occupation or even about having people coming and going to Mars,”Buzz Aldrin said in a speech last week at the Technion Institute in Haifa. “I’m talking about a permanent presence. My plan presents a defined path to mankind’s next home.”
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, wants to see a human settlement on Mars by 2040.
"Mars is the island awaiting us in the darkness of space,” he said. “Because there, as president Kennedy said about the moon-landing mission, a rendezvous with destiny is awaiting us.”