[EagleUSA]

Russia might want to consider developing the technology (themselves) to put a man on the moon FIRST --- here again they are trying to ride on the coat-tails of the US.

[ambrose]

2017 is more ambitious than the US plan, which won't have a man on Mars until 2030...

[boris]

Any nuclear thermal rocket engine would have to be developed and tested in Russia because the enviro-whackos would not permit it in the U.S.

Hence this is an inevitable deal--IF we want to go to Mars.

--Boris

[demlosers]

Yup, the Ruskies can find their own way to Mars and beyond.