0bama had a mission to hell.
“Get your ass to Mars.”
let’s just send the liberals, if they’re lost, it’s no big deal.
What? No more muslim outreach?
“Experts suspect...”
“...program will likely...”
“Industry analysts suspect...”
This article is a big nothing burger.
So?
Kennedy’s space mission boiled down to going to the Moon, and that worked out pretty well.
It inspired everyone in America, and many around the world. It gave young Americans a vision of a future of exploration and discovery, which then vanished as decades of navel-gazing and self doubt set in.
America needs to lead the way into the solar system. Earth’s growing population demands a safety valve. The concept of Manifest Destiny is still valid, although “west” is now “up.”
“Trump will likely modestly increase NASA’s overall budget...”
Please start the Shuttle missions and return jobs to 200K people. Best machine ever built. Going to Mars is bad engineering, like solar power, global warming and limited oil.
I’d nominate the intrepid explorer Leonardo Di Crapio as the Mars expedition leader. Al Gore can be the experimental robot.
What I want to know is when is Cher blasting off for Jupiter?
‘Suspect’ , ‘likely’,’should be’ , ‘likely’, ‘suspect’.... The words in the article used on that order. So they really know nothing about what his policy will be and are just filling a page.
I don’t think it’s worth it to send humans to Mars. Maybe someday with everything is great back home.
I’ll never forget that bastard retiring our beloved shuttle and seeing it wheeling along the highway to the grave!! It was like watching the beginning of the death of America. Can we get ourselves into space still or do we still have to bum rides from Russia?
Good move.
Stupid to stick to one planet.
I’d rather have my tax dollars going to that than to regime change or foreign aid.
Well Mars is the “Red” planet
Big deal, Cher is going to Jupiter this week.
It’s good to have long term goals, but he also needs to high profile tasks that can be accomplished while he’s in office.
Could start a moon colony and populate it with Clinton moonbeams. Could also send them all the illegal drugs confiscated by the police as an incentive to go! Shoot, Hillary could be the first Moon Queen with her utopian society and they could truly live in their make believe bubble. No carbon footprint, no lunar warming, what’s to lose? Here’s my $10.
Why do we want to go down into another gravity well when we have just fought so hard to get out of one?
There is lots and lots of very interesting stuff floating around in the asteroid belt. We need a big ship and a few dozen people on it to take a long tour.
Gee going to Mrs instead of focusing on multi-sexual gendering, BLM, the environment, and Muslim relations - what does he think NASA is all about anyway???
There is no reason to go to Mars except to stoke our vain pride and say, “We did it”. There is no economic justification to offset the financial and human cost. Sending people there is not technically feasible; their muscles will atrophy in zero-gravity until they will be too weak to walk on Mars surface; they will die early deaths from radiation exposure; they may die on descent or fail to leave Mar’s surface. There is no practical way to colonize Mars. The fate of Jamestown ought to serve as a warning. Let’s prove the concept with a sustainable moon colony before attempting Mars.