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Topic: NASA aims to put man on Mars by 2037
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Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 09-24-2007 11:09 AM
   
At the international space conference in India, NASA administrator Michael Griffin set 2037 as the year humans would walk on the red planet. That's a realistic target date but half of us on this forum won't live to see that event.  |
cIclops
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posted 09-24-2007 04:02 PM
Cryogenic suspension may help  |
cspg
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From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-25-2007 12:30 AM
At what age do you plan to go cryogenic (can't think of a verb here)?  To speed a Mars trip, maybe we could spot a crashed alien spaceship? A long shot.  Chris. |
Mike Dixon
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From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 09-25-2007 12:50 AM
Ummm... which half Philip? |
cIclops
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posted 09-25-2007 05:56 AM
Hang on in there Philip there's good news, the latest NASA roadmap now shows the Mars Expedition in 2030. With full funding that date can be moved much further to the left... 2020 anyone? |
Frewi80
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From: Hawaii. Waipahu
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 09-25-2007 08:49 AM
So... we are going to Mars now, to collect some mars rocks. Examine them carefully on Earth and put them in a extremely secured vault next to the moon rocks for the next centuries, were no one can touch them. By the way where are the moon rocks? Somewhere in Area 51? |
cspg
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From: Geneva, Switzerland
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posted 09-25-2007 10:05 AM
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Originally posted by Frewi80:
So... we are going to Mars now, to collect some mars rocks. Examine them carefully on Earth and put them in a extremely secured vault next to the moon rocks for the next centuries, were no one can touch them.
For an illustrative description of the comment above, turn to p244 of Hamish Lindsay's Tracking Apollo to the Moon. My favourite Paul Rigby's cartoon. Chris. |
star61
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From: Bristol UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 09-25-2007 12:07 PM
Politicians are all a bunch of narrow minded self aggrandizing wussess. We should be on Mars now, the asteroids by 2010, the Jovian moons by 2015, Saturn's moons a couple of years later... then... hey, where-ever!
It drives me nuts... I'm fed up waiting. Phil (in angry mode... please excuse) |
cspg
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posted 09-26-2007 12:44 AM
That makes two of us! Chris. |
Frewi80
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From: Hawaii. Waipahu
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 09-26-2007 02:44 AM
I agree, manned space exploration is quite boring now. Going to the International Space Station back and forth... now for 30+ years. Indeed we should be back on the moon a long time ago. Can somebody get in touch with these politician wussess and kick their @#%$.And by the way, when are these moon rocks available on eBay or collectSPACE? And I mean moon ROCK as in ROCK not dust! Maybe they are already used as fertilizer to grow daisies in Area 51! Is the public ever going to see them? Just a bit upset how manned space exploration is going these days... |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-26-2007 02:48 AM
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Originally posted by Frewi80:
And by the way, when are these moon rocks available on eBay or collectSPACE? And I mean moon ROCK as in ROCK not dust!
Not any time soon, and rightly so. The Apollo recovered moon rocks are national treasures, the property of the American public as a whole, not any one individual. They are still being studied and discoveries about the Moon are still being made. quote:
Is the public ever going to see them?
There are many moon rocks on public display worldwide. |
mjanovec
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From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-26-2007 10:20 AM
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Originally posted by Frewi80:
Is the public ever going to see them?
Go to the Kona International Airport in Hawaii if you want to see one. It's at the Ellison Onizuka Space Center. |
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