As NASA gets serious about sending manned missions to Mars, it’s tempting to think, How hard could it be? After all, we put astronauts on the Moon more than half a century ago.
But traveling to the Moon versus Mars isn’t quite as similar as we might think. For starters, the trip to the moon typically takes three days. To reach Mars will require a round-trip voyage of three years.
Aside from the myriad engineering challenges of executing such a long journey, one of the biggest obstacles to a manned Mars mission is psychological. As Northwestern professor and organizational leadership expert L