[Lazamataz]

Having retired from 45 years in aerospace, I assert we won’t ever send man to Mars. Too damned expensive and nothing to be learned that robots can’t tell us for 1/10th the price. Colonizing is a joke.

Colonizing, AT PRESENT, is a joke.

[G Larry]

uh...no...NEVER

With ever increasing requirements for triple redundancy & proof testing for every component and sub-system, there will never be a constituency large enough to justify the expense.

Too many departments of CYA to ever make this affordable or justifiable.

Marginal breakthroughs in one or a few technologies will never overcome the laundry list of unacceptable risks.