[GeronL]

I know we're not ready to send people... Stick a rocket on the ISS and send that to Mars =o)

[Robert_Paulson2]

ISS?
for a moment I got confused thinking that was the name of the Pakistani Secret Police...

it made me laugh.
then I realized... International Space Station ... argh...
I disagree... unless we put some real undesireables on there first. hillary, kerry, arafatty,.... nah, even arafatty deserves a better way OUT than to sit with ole crusty for a month or more.

With any luck, kerry would start an organization of astronauts against exploration (AAE)and they could carry out their very own controversial self assasination plot in protest.