The first flyby reached Mars on 1965 and sent photos back to earth. The first Rover, Path finder reached Mars on 1997. It's a gap of 53 yrs that we sent the first satellite and 21 yrs that we landed a Rover in mars and still it may take another 5 to 10 yrs for us to send humans to Mars on a safe mission. What if we have sent humans 15 yrs back to Mars, it would have been a suicidal mission, few Astronauts would have dedicated their lives but there would have been a massive advancement in the planetary mission. Looking at the cosmos something resets life after every few million years and we don't know when ours is going to be due and it's important we take this suicidal mission for the survival of the most intelligent species, Humans..
