Stephen Petranek explains how humans will be traveling to Mars in the not too distant future. He explains the problems we will face and how we can solve the problems to get there.
The following is a list of solutions to obstacles that we will face when traveling to and living on Mars.
Mars is about a thousand times further from the Earth than the Moon. The moon is about 238 thousand miles away. It took Apollo 3 days to get to the Moon. Mars is about 249 million miles away and it will take us 8 months to get there (240 days).