Mars

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Thu May 02, 2002 5:21 pm

What year do you guys think that a man/woman will set foot on Mars?

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Thu May 02, 2002 10:30 pm

I think 2015 just a guess but hey you never know. I think we are advancing pretty fast but not that fast. Plus there are a lot of hurdles to getting to mars!!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri May 03, 2002 12:26 pm

I'd love it if you were right about going to mars in 2015 but i think thats extremely optomistic in my opinion. The current climate at NASA makes me thin it will be much later. Right now NASA isnt even working on really lanning mars missione let alone developing the space craft and equipment to do it. I heard a NASA Langley Research Center engineer speak on the subject recently and he pointed out that right now all of NASA'a Mars work is concentrating on unmanned probes for the near future. Although i have to admit some of the new probes are verry impressive and will make pathfinder look like something from the stone age in many ways. So if nothing else we can look forward to newer and better unmanned probesclimaxing in a probe that will hopefully return samples of mars back to Earth.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Fri May 03, 2002 8:25 pm

I've heard estimates that around 2019 we should have humans walking on Mars.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Fri May 03, 2002 8:34 pm

You might be right about that one i was trying to think fast and when i think about time it always seems to take a long time for years to pass so it seemed normal to me.lol of course it was pretty late when i said that!!

Post by **Vincent** » Fri May 03, 2002 8:35 pm

Perhaps, but I seem to recall back in the 80's sometime, George Bush (the first one) made a directive to get humans to Mars by 2010 (I think that's the date he set...it was so long ago!) or something...we're certainly not going to hit that because, while I think everyone wants to go to Mars, no one really wants to pay for it.

...sometimes I think another Cold War would be a good thing (by comparison, it sure beats a real war!). We could race someone to Mars, and increase our level of technology at the same time!

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Fri May 03, 2002 8:38 pm

A cold war might push NASA to get to Mars. I want to see someone walk on Mars or the Moon soon. I wish I was alive during Apollo. To me it's a big deal and my parent's don't even about the moon missions

Post by **Vincent** » Fri May 03, 2002 8:41 pm

A good point about the moon...there's a great many number of things we could do with the moon, scientifically.

We never should have stopped going. We should've just been running missions back and forth all of these years, working towards a lunar outpost. But instead we just stopped going. How dumb are we?!

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Fri May 03, 2002 9:10 pm

It's all politics. They should look at the scientific advantages of going back. It'd be worth the cost in the end.

Post by **Vincent** » Fri May 03, 2002 9:14 pm

It'd be well worth the cost of putting me on Mars or back on the Moon. The problem is the pay-off wouldn't be immediate.

Thus, in a society of instant-gratification, no one's going to go for it, at least not at the moment.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Fri May 03, 2002 9:16 pm

I just wish people could look past the short term things. A moon or Mars mission would be awesome!!

orion8 · Post by **orion8** » Sun May 05, 2002 6:52 pm

Yes, you're right... it's all politics. We need someone to say "we're going to Mars" and then back it up. I have been dissapointed in Bush as far as the Space program (like cutting the x34) but i know after sep11 he is not really worried bout that!

Matt

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sun May 05, 2002 7:08 pm

Maybe we'll find green martians!!!!

orion8 · Post by **orion8** » Sun May 05, 2002 7:12 pm

or some microbiological bacteria!!

Matt

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sun May 05, 2002 7:13 pm

The green martians could be our pets!!

orion8 · Post by **orion8** » Sun May 05, 2002 7:30 pm

or make us theirs!!

Matt

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sun May 05, 2002 7:40 pm

Let's not think about that!

LaRsOnAtRiXkIx · Post by **LaRsOnAtRiXkIx** » Sun May 05, 2002 8:04 pm

i dont think well go to mars for a while.
2020's-2030's maybe
thers so much that needs to be done in order to go..money..time to actually get there. idk.
i think maybe we should go back to the moon first...

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sun May 05, 2002 8:07 pm

It's fun to dream about it thou!

LaRsOnAtRiXkIx · Post by **LaRsOnAtRiXkIx** » Sun May 05, 2002 8:12 pm

totally. ive always dreamed of getting to go to mars...maybe someday i will. i'd settle for space though.

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