Going to the Moon was a Cake Walk!

There are three major problems that make traveling to Mars more difficult then to the moon. First, the trip to Mars takes much longer then three days, you now have to protect humans from the dangers of long term space travel. The humans manning the mission to Mars will be exposed to cosmic radiation, muscle atrophy, and possibly no be able to handle the psychological stress of the long journey. Secondly, the funding required to send a human to Mars would be in the tens of billions. And lastly, landing a space craft on Mars is much more difficult then landing one on the moon. The moon has no atmosphere but Mars does and it is an atmosphere that we don’t know much about. The bigger the object that is landing on Mars the more affected the landing will be by the atmospheric differences.