[Paul Ross]

A more interesting article on the same subject is located here.

[ravingnutter]

What they forgot in the article you linked is that we will go back to the moon first. We can then use the moon as a base to go to Mars, significantly cutting the cost of that trip, as was explained yesterday by the man that wrote the original Bush I space plan. He also stated that one of the plans being considered involves building "collectors" to collect radiation and beaming it to collectors on earth via microwave technology. This could feasibly run electrical power for the whole nation and significantly reduce the dependence on foreign oil. Awsome....