[Insigne123]

I’ll vote Jeb! as its first presaident if he leaves soon

[refermech]

Buzz Lightyear: To infinity and beyond!

[Lee'sGhost]

Speaking of space, anybody else watch The Astronauts Wives Club? I found it entertaining even if a bit preachy at times. Brought back a lot of good memories. The bigger parts of the story seem true as I remember them, but does anyone know how accurate the personal stories are?

[Textide]

Project Aldrin-Purdue: https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/Academics/Courses/aae450/2015/spring

Project Aldrin-Purdue Final Report (Senior Project): https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/Academics/Courses/aae450/2015/spring/docs/ProjectAldrin-PurdueFinalReport.pdf

Buzz Aldrin's page: Cycling Pathways to Mars: http://buzzaldrin.com/space-vision/advocacy/cycling-pathways-to-occupy-mars/

[struggle]

Buzz Aldrin: “We’re gonna land on Mars!”
Democrat 1: “Is your flight crew sufficiently diverse enough?”
Democrat 2: “What kind of health care plan will they have?”
Democrat 3: “Will there be an abortion provider riding along in case a female gets pregnant?”
Democrat 4: “Can we fly the gay flag when we get there?”

[MichaelCorleone]

Now this is a man who is passionate about space exploration!

Another little tidbit that the msm has suppressed since 1969: Buzz Aldrin was also the first astronaut to take Communion (the Holy Eucharist) on the moon.

I wonder if any of the other astronauts or engineers of the Apollo era will be taking part in it.

[Honorary Serb]

Unfortunately, the U.S. is no longer the same country that went to the Moon.

[rfreedom4u]

The odds are against Mr. Aldrin living to see the year 2040. If this plan succeeds I believe we will know where to relocate the UN building.

[ETL]

According to Sheila Jackass Lee we've been to Mars already.

Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Leep>

[JoeProBono]

[backwoods-engineer]

Y’all write this down, so you can remember it in 25 years: by then, the last thing Americans will be interested in will be going to Mars.

[SampleMan]

Silly question, but why wouldn’t we colonize Antarctica before Mars? Its an entirely undeveloped continent here on Earth, and the challenges of colonizing it would be much easier than those with Mars.

[BigCinBigD]

Someday some high school kid will be in class reading about this, and out the window will be Olympus Mons.

[Twinkie]

Christ will return to this EARTH before they get a chance to colonize other planets. - I think I’ll try at least to just hang here until He returns. - In God’s mercy, he has allowed us to go to the moon; but getting to other planets far, far away is a BIG project. (I worked at MSFC in 1964. The engineers there took it for granted that MANY men would lose their lives in the quest for the moon. Miracle that they didn’t. I was just sure my typing errors would cause some sort of a crash.)

[Pollster1]

I hope we follow through. We still have great Americans, even if they are a smaller fraction of the population than they used to be. We have always had Obama-liberals - parasites who don’t want to do anything useful but demand that they be supported by decent, productive people. The only change is in proportions, and I worry constantly about a generation with enough parasites to put Obama within the margin of fraud.

If we settle Mars, it will at first be populated almost exclusively by conservatives. No one else takes risks with their own lives for a good cause. Perhaps they will get it right for longer than our country did, but in any case another 200 years of greatness would be a good thing for humanity. By then we should be settling other planets, moons, and space stations, and it could be the biggest flowering of freedom in history.

[dfwgator]

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.