[Ezekiel]

Does NASA still possess the means to get said helicopter to Mars?

You raise an excellent point.

The 'next generation' really needs to be able to fly itself there.

[EEGator]

I honestly don’t know their capabilities anymore. After the Muslim outreach mission, I pretty much wrote them off permanently.

I have been paying some attention to Space X.

I’ll always remember watching a nighttime shuttle launch from the top of a building on Patrick AFB.
It was amazing to see everything light up and feel the sound propagation from it.
Better times…