[BenLurkin]

Add 50 years to that estimate and ....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Okay, and what will that do for the citizens of China?

[dhs12345]

Exactly. If he wants to return to Earth. :)

[Doogle]

,,good, we can send Biden back home...

[lee martell]

Can we nominate any American Presidents for a ahem, One Way Ticket to Mars? I could send $7.48,in Canadian Money, today even!

[dhs12345]

According to Clarke we were supposed to already be there. Then a return trip in 2010.

Both 2001 and 2010 have come and gone. :)

[FlingWingFlyer]

For the sake of political correctness, I can see the DNC run U.S. “Government” telling NASA that the first man on Mars MUST be a Muzzie with low self esteem.

[Jack Hydrazine]

More than 100,000 people want to fly to Mars in 2022 - and never come back
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389076/More-100-000-people-want-fly-Mars-2022—come-back.html

Mars One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

Mars One
http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap

[JRandomFreeper]

Manned Mars landing is only 30 years away. Just like for the last 40 years.

/johnny

[Bryan24]

Won’t be an American.

NASA’s budget during Apollo was 5-7% of the total budget.... of the part that wasn’t classified. Some have put it as high as 20%. During the 64, 65,66 years.

We have been at .5% for years now.

[gop4lyf]

Anyone want to bet that that it WILL NOT be a white, male, Protestant of Anglo descent?

[Dallas59]

How will this help income inequality, the occupation of Palestine, racism against the President, or make weed legal everywhere?/s

[Mr. K]

"However, the American government will need to restore the agency's budget to what it once was before the agency was sequestered"

After all, thanks to sequester they had to cut 0.083% from the budget!- THE HORROR!

How do they expect them to do muslim outreach AND go to Mars with 0.083 percent less money??

[Jack Hydrazine]

Mars One mission, the HOME WRECKER: Wife threatens divorce after her husband is considered for one-way trip into space

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2541275/Mars-One-mission-HOME-WRECKER-Applicant-considers-divorce-getting-round-applications-embark-one-way-trip.html

[Nowhere Man]

We should have been on Mars by 1983.

[Arthurio]

2030s... how sad is that? All the visionaries of the 60’s/70’s had us out of the Solar System by now...

[DouglasKC]

Never happen with any us govt money unnless the country is rebooted.

[backwoods-engineer]

Man setting foot on Mars in 2030s nearing reality

... for the Chinese. Not America. Obama and Bush destroyed our space program to appease Marxists and Muslims. I'm surprised Obama didn't turn Cape Canaveral into a mosque.

[Secret Agent Man]

1. explicitly do not make it a world enterprise.

2. private endeavor all the way. no government effing things up.