According to reports, NASA said it is looking forward to building a way to Mars. The space agency made the announcement on the 46th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. It will probably make use of terraforming robots for the purpose.

They are looking forward to do so in order to put people on the Moon by 2021 and want them to stay there by the 2030s.

The agency wants to do this in an attempt to save its billions of dollars in launch costs. In order to do so, they will be mining ice that is buried in the dark depths of craters of the Moon and will convert it into rocket fuel.

As per reports, this would considerably reduce the requirement of building huge rockets that need more fuel to lift cargoes out of orbit of Earth. At the present time, NASA pays $6400 to space private contractor SpaceX for every kilogram it sends into space.

Cargoes could be delivered to the Moon on smaller and cheaper boosters under the new proposal. The NexGen study suggests that this project should also be completed as a NASA private enterprise partnership.

The agency has been thinking about getting robots to do many difficult tasks for them. NASA has also come up with a concept image of how robotic mirrors could be utilized to power robots that will work in the permanent shadow of the Moon's craters.

Last month the agency announced grant for a $500,000, study planning to send robots called TransFormers to the moon's south pole to "terraform". The study will be conducted for two years.