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Planet MarsA one-way trip to MarsPlanning an expeditionDiscussing the usefulness of research. NASAGenetic modification –the Kiwangewww.jones-english.comOverviewNASA is looking for volunteers to fly to Mars -the problem is that you won't come back.Warmer23Will we ever live on a different planet? Would you like to?4Why is it so difficult to live on Planet Earth?5Do you like adventure?1Do you ever look at the stars? Why?How many planets in our solar system can you name?DevelopWhere would you most/least like to travel to? Explain your reasons.holiday on Marsholiday in Antarcticaholiday in the SaharaDevelopYou are planning a mission to Mars. What will you take with you?Food items:Entertainment items:Personal items:Necessary items:Communication items:Self-defence items:Anything else?:VocabularyDo you know the meaning of all these words? Use a dictionary to look up the words you don’t know. Then explain them to the other members of your group.snagsettlerscommencesubstantialforbidding (adj)plummetReadingRead the textDead-end JobNASA is looking for volunteers to fly to Mars -the snag is that you won't come back. It is actively investigating the possibility of humans colonising worlds such as the Red Planet. The settlers would be sent supplies from Earth but would go on the understanding that it would be too costly to bring them home.NASA revealed that it had already received more than $1 million to commence work on the project. The director of the project said "The human space program is now aimed at settling other worlds.Scientists say much of the cost of such a mission is associated with bringing the astronauts home -the price of sending 20 Mars settlers with a one-way ticket would be equal to bringing four astronauts back. Experts say a nuclear-fuelled rocket could make the journey in four months.Of all the planets in the solar system, Mars is the most likely to have substantial quantities of water, making it the best bet for sustaining life.But it is a forbidding place to set up home. Temperatures plummet way below freezing in some parts. The thin atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, so oxygen supplies are a must.New technologies, such as synthetic biology and alterations to the human genome, could be explored ahead of the mission.Writing in the Journal of Cosmology, scientists Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies envisaged sending four volunteer astronauts on the first mission to colonise Mars.A one-way human mission to Mars would not be a fixed-duration project as in the Apollo program, but the first step in establishing a permanent human presence on the planet, they said.DiscussionIn the reading, the author talks about synthetic biology and alterations to the human genome. In your opinion, what should we put limits on research?Would you eat a Kiwange?