Anyway, it’s not a pipe dream, like most of America’s greatness it’s been put on a shelf waiting for people with vision and ability to take back our government. Right now, you will probably see it in the Chinese or Indian space programs before you see it in ours until Obama does some serious head chopping of the anti-America GOP moles in the government. He’s shown a lack of intestinal fortitude to take on that challenge, so you’ll just have to wait a few years for America to become a completely third world nation then some of these people that take the future seriously will step up and deliver the dream to the world.

Our guys could wear special sunglasses so all the “Red” in that state won’t blind them. Just a thought.

a reckless gamble on some people’s lives.

And yet, I would challenge you to find one astronaut who wouldn’t leap at the opportunity.

Build bigger, better, and faster robots. That’s a project I could get behind.

I’m pretty tired of paying people to go into space to run experiments designed by primary school students. And, agreeing with Emily, robots can do a whole lot of the exploration of Mars if we want to go there in the next decade or so.

But really, manned missions to other planets are way down my wish list right now. I think that the funds that go into building and running a Mars mission would create a fraction of the number of jobs the same amount could create in infrastructure and green energy–plus we’d get immediate benefits and fewer people will starve here in the USA.

We’re in a serious financial crisis. We need to spend a lot of money to stimulate the economy, put people to work in great numbers, and fix up all the things that Bush let pass by. Let’s work on that.

It’s the plot of Total Recall!