Bet 351
Duration 27 years (02008-02035)
PREDICTOR
Predictify Crowd
CHALLENGER
Unchallenged
Argument: The crowd at Predictify.com believes that one or more space agencies will send a manned mission to Mars by 2035. Click here to check it out and predict for yourself! .
NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Russian Space Agency have looked into the feasibility of launching a mission to Mars in the near future. This would allow us to gain more insight about Mars' surface and help scientists figure out if water once existed on the planet. With the right technology in place in terms of robotic mapping and advanced communications abilities, one or more space agencies will definitely send a mission to mars by 2035.
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