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UF faculty help shape strategy for human exploration of Mars

Two UF faculty members with the Astraeus Space Institute played key leadership roles in a major report intended to guide U.S. science priorities for future human missions to Mars.

“We, humanity, are going to Mars,” said Anna-Lisa Paul, Ph.D., chair of the Astraeus administrative council. “The scientists and students that comprise Astraeus are part of that future now, and who knows, some of our students may even be in those first boots on the surface of Mars.”