> Which means it’s likely that the first humans on Mars will not have been sent there by NASA or ESA. Yes I agree that's likely but for very different reasons

> Which means it’s likely that the first humans on Mars will not have been sent there by NASA or ESA. Yes I agree that's likely but for very different reasons from what is said in the article: "Since the retirement of the US Space Shuttle in 2011, only Russia and China have maintained human spaceflight capability with the Soyuz program and Shenzhou program."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight