And who knows, maybe a breakthrough will make it sooner.
The disappointing thing is that it hasn’t been done already - we do have the technology.
Nixon should’ve announced the project in a nationally broadcast speech the night of 7/20/69, but he was so jealous of the Kennedys that he couldn’t bring himself to give even the hint of perceived approval of the space program in general.
I have actually come around to concluding that we don’t really need manned space flight.
It is much easier and cheaper to explore with unmanned flights.
I don’t see the point of sending humans just to say we can.
Thankfully these people weren’t in charge of the Apollo program or we’d still be waiting for one small step.
It’s eyewash. Without the funding (and it will dry up) we’ll never get there unless we discover life or signs of former life there. If we do that, all bets are off. In fact if that happened we might be there before 2037.
2037-the man they choose for this mission likely hasn’t even been born yet.
I hope Al Sharpton’s still with us to make the trip.
He can begin his own race on Mars. What an opportunity!
I’ll be 60 - so if all’s well I’ll be around to see it!
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It would be nice, but considering the current system can’t launch in rain and gets damaged by foam insulation, I have my doubts.
At least according to Sheila Jackson Lee.
Heck, I remember when NASA said they will have men on Mars by 1985!
Then 2000 ... then 2020 ... now 2037.
Private ventures are the only way to get there imo. Relying upon NASA is a guarantee of never seeing it happen.
Unless, of course, another nation starts doing it, then NASA will do it just to deny the opposition an impregnable military high ground.
What’s the hurry?
I wonder if NASA has ever thought of a name change.
NIYL would be so much more accruate.
Not In Your Lifetime... SUCKERS!
They could save money by sending Ron Paul...
...he’s already 3/4 of the way there.
Let's hear it for the "Great Society"!
Outer space is not the next frontier but the only true oblivion.
2037 is 3 years before the scheduled retirement of the B-52.
Why think of the huge carbon footprint that would leave!!! Imagine how many trillions of tons of greenhouse gases rockets cause!!
I’m of the opinion that a minor mining base on the moon to extract titanium and He-3 for fusion power here on earth makes more sense as a first step to a Mars base.
Complete scam, and waste of taxpayer’s money. Nothing can live
there.
NASA is the Fed. gov’ts folly just like light rail is to the
cities that don’t need it.
Why? Do you have any idea of how much this will cost or who will pay for it or how useless it is from a scientific viewpoint?