Send ours to the middle east kamikaze style.
Heading west on the Oregon Trail was usually a one-way trip as well.
Maybe we can get many of “our” politicians to “volunteer”???
Seems to me we have this in the world in muslim fanatical human bombs who volunteer to destroy themselves and everyone around them for a “heroic” cause. No, I would not approve of any sort of mission from a civilized country.
Send politicians.
We take the car keys away and send aging parents to old folks’ homes. What’s the difference, especially if they’re willing? It’s hardly euthanasia.
They could help build something for future generations once there.
Absolutely.
No higher or better exercise of personal freedom. When we ask soldiers to take a hill, we don’t even give them a choice.
I volunteered.
The goal should be robots good enough to be given an exploration plan for a day and report back later. You pretty much have to do it that way, anyhow, since interactive remote control is not practical when a vehicle is light-minutes away.
I don’t get the point of sending anyone.
Mars/Moon are desolate outposts like Antarctica and Greenland are today.
If there is a financial case to prospect further there, then the prospectors will find a way. If there is a financial case to build a remote town/hotel there, then the developers will find a way.
In the meantime there’s plenty of prospecting and science to be done using drones by NASA.
Every mission has the possibility of being a one way mission.
Wait! there's a fatwa against that. OK send the jehadis along with them to execute them when they get there.
Now that's Muslim outreach, where no Imams have gone before.
There are some one-way missions that are reasonable. For example, if at some point, Mars missions resulted in a large, self-sustaining underground habitat, sufficiently advanced to have a purpose of slowly terraforming Mars, so that astronauts were effectively colonists, I see nothing wrong with their volunteering to do so.
Only Democrats in office....
“Pardner, there comes a time when the party of the first part has no recourse but to knock some sense into the party of the second part!”
What if it’s a private enterprise?
Didn’t President Obama convert our NASA into some sort of “self-esteem therapy” service for the rest of the world’s Moslems? How better to elevate their self-esteem than to send them up into outer space? (....all the violent terrorist ones and their supporters...)
They can shout Alluh Akbar all the way to Uranus...
Problem Solved.
Live is a one way trip.
Let’s volunteer “Abbas”:
(short excerpt from a web article follows:)
Need more examples of Abbas’ death cult and anti-Semitic terrorism?
December 2012: Abbas honors 6 terrorists responsible for killing hundreds of Israelis and two American diplomats.
January 2013: Abbas pledges to “follow the path” of 15 terrorists responsible for killing hundreds of Jews.
March 2013: Abbas honors the murderer of 2 students.
April 2013: Abbas honors the planner of attacks that killed dozens.
May 2013: Abbas refuses to condemn his advisor who glorified a murderer, as requested by members of US Congress.
Last April, “President” Abbas receives the coffins of 91 terrorists who murdered more than 200 Jews and salutes them with wreaths and the firing of volleys of shots.
Mahmoud Abbas, who in his doctoral dissertation at Moscow Oriental College denied that gas chambers were used to murder Jews, who aims to expel and/or kill 600,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria, is like the piper in the famous Hamelin fairy tale. The real rats are the subhuman Muslim terrorists who have put his hatred into practice.