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The point about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) landing a small craft on Mars is not just to find out if life exists or existed on the Red Planet. Of greater significance to the scientists is making sure that space exploration can benefit life on this planet.
Of course Nasa would dearly love to know, from a scientific viewpoint, if life has ever existed on Mars and detail the geology and climate, ahead of a pioneering human exploration.
But they are far more interested in learning if life can be supported on the planet and whether landing astronauts is a viable proposition. But what humanity does not need is another space race, where superpowers try to outdo each other.
By all means reach for the stars, but let it this time be a truly global enterprise in more ways than one that would be to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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