Obama sets Mars goal for America

Burt Rutan could probably get to Mars and have enough spare change from the Ansari X Prize for a curry afterwards.

He’s too old to be JFK reincarnated…

I doubt I’ll be around to see it anyway

Nah, we’ll be space hoppin in a thousand years. What’s the death date of the Sun? About 3 billion more isn’t it?

Or, do you think we’ll be zonked by an Asteroid, or a nuclear war?

Whatever our fate I’m sure it will befall us long before the sun starts to die.

I thought the USA was skint …

Nah, we’ll be space hoppin in a thousand years. What’s the death date of the Sun? About 3 billion more isn’t it?

Or, do you think we’ll be zonked by an Asteroid, or a nuclear war?

I fear that long before it becomes a red lump we will have either left and found another solar system or we’ll all be gonners. My money is on the latter.

Hmm – Obama’s a wiley politician……

Well, he’s certainly full of the same shipt all the rest of them are.

When the Sun turns into a Red Lump, we need to populate another Solar system. Mars isn’t far enough away. But living on it may teach us how to migrate to another world.

No, he shut down a rocket program that would cost 50% more than the shuttle (per launch) and carry half the payload.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/2010/04/mr-obama-pitches-for-asteroids.shtml

Whether it’s the moon or Mars, the important thing is that manned missions continue to push the boundaries of what is possible.

I think there has also been a boost for this particular research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_specific_impulse_magnetoplasma_rocket

Which could reduce flighttime to mars to only 39 days!!! Here’s hoping! 🙂

1 feb 2010
He cancelled the Ares-1 rocket that would have taken America back
to the moon in the Orion module, I think that included all the large
boosters that would have gone to Mars, I might be wrong but if I am
i’m shure someone will correct me:D

Hmm – Obama’s a wiley politician……

No, he shut down a rocket program that would cost 50% more than the shuttle (per launch) and carry half the payload.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/2010/04/mr-obama-pitches-for-asteroids.shtml

Whether it’s the moon or Mars, the important thing is that manned missions continue to push the boundaries of what is possible.

I think there has also been a boost for this particular research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_specific_impulse_magnetoplasma_rocket

Which could reduce flighttime to mars to only 39 days!!! Here’s hoping! 🙂

Hang on a minute, hasn’t he just cancelled the rocket program that was
going to be used for just that task?

^^^^^^^^ And she was sent there on a one-way ticket.

My guess…
He’s talking a good game to look good to the moderates in the near term…
but he’ll never get around to spending the big money to get it done…to look good to his social welfare friends who have largely been against space funding.

Also, remember under the U.S. Constitution, the President can’t budget or spend money.
The Congress does the budgeting…so he could still try to look good while doing a back room deal with his party (assuming that they’re still the majority) NOT to fund something.
It gives him a chance to say..”I tried…”.

The only way he’d fund a mission is if Sarah Palin was the mission commander.:D