Could an Aussie get on the mission to Mars (and come back alive)?

Donald Trump says US astronauts will be planting an American flag on Mars within the next four years. But how about an Australian flag?

In 2019 the then-PM Scott Morrison committed 150 million taxpayer dollars to get Australia a seat at the table for Project Artemis. Australia may not have anything of the scale of NASA, but we do have a national space agency. So could we see an Australian flag planted right next to the American one on the red planet in the next few years? 

Dr Rebecca Allen is Co-Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology. She joins Bension Siebert to explain what is, and isn’t, possible. 

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