Is NASA planning a space manned mission to Mars? The Kepler space telescope, which has its eye on 150,000 stars, is beginning to home in on Earth-size planets, so why is NASA planning on going to the planet MARS? An all-male international crew of six has emerged from 520 days of confinement on a mock mission to Mars back in November of 2011. The all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese emerged from the western Moscow facility, which simulated the confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel — minus the weightlessness.

The experiment was intended to yield valuable psychological and medical data on the effects of the planned long-term deep space mission. The experiment permitted the study of the technical challenges, work capability of crew and management of long-distance spaceflight. Communications lag, autonomy, resource rationing, health, conditions of isolation, which are the main peculiarities of a real Martian flight. So why go through all of this unless NASA is not planning a mission to MARS?

Enter Richard C. Hoagland, the head of an independent Mars investigation team who has been making the case for crucial connections between ancient structures on the landscape of our moon, the planet Mars, and the ruins of ancient civilizations on Earth. Richard C. Hoaglan is a former CBS Science Advisor for Walter Cronkite, and a former NASA consultant to the Goddard Space Flight Center, and is the founder and Principal Investigator of The Enterprise Mission. Author of the international best seller, The Monuments of Mars- now in its Fifth Edition, Richard C. Hoagland has been making noise for years about planet MARS. He also claims there are massive structures on MARS.

Could NASA be getting ready for a fully manned mission to MARS based on all of this?