According to NASA projections, in the year 2018, a complete habitat with air locks, supply systems, food and so on, should be sent to Mars. One year later, the first research team should land on Mars, and in 2020, an unmanned freighter flight is expected to deliver more equipment, including inflatable green houses, a Mars vehicle, various construction, and drilling devices. Two years later, in 2022, the next crew should arrive and soon, the first Mars base will be operating routinely. Towards 2040, the first settlers could land and begin the colonization of the red planet.

The Mars program is a technical challenge and a bubbling source of new knowledge. With its legions of scientists, engineers and technicians, it will give a dramatic push to the demand for teaching staff and teaching material.

With their highly-technological activities, manned space flight has enriched evolution more than any other undertaking to the benefit of all of mankind.

Space travel will not stop. The moons of our planetary system are the next targets. And the universe! Concepts are meanwhile figured out to reach the stars. What we are able to realize - what's about other, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations? Did they reached already our Solar System? Could we expect results from SETA - the search for extraterrestrial artifacts? What will happen is SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by radio astronomy will present results?

Space is future - a territory full of expectations and surprising discoveries.