[Coco] Re: off-topic, space program

[Brad Grier]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> This new spacecraft project sounds a whole lot like an indirect 
> statement that they are replacing the unstable/faulty shuttles that keep 
> blowing up and killing humans.
> 
> Ok, I'm 35... and it looks like NASA will make sure we have a man on 
> Mars no earlier than 2030, when I will be 61.  I'm not impressed.  I'm 
> also not impressed over the 2020 date for the next moon mission.  I 
> guess this is my old Star Trek inner-child wanting to see something 
> happen while I'm still alive, but it looks like my future great 
> grandkids might get to see a few rocks come back from the moon or Mars.  
> If I get to see a man step foot on Mars, I will have lived; then they 
> can do whatever they want after that. :)
> 
> ----------
> Roger Taylor


Mars has been a source of fascination for me since I saw the first 
Viking lander images. I completely agree with your sentiments.  Thirty 
years is a long time to wait. Twenty years to return man to the moon 
seems a little ridiculous considering we accomplished that feat once 
before in a much shorter time period with more primitive technology.

$87 billion could have easily put us on Mars in a decade but that's 
another story for another off-topic thread.

Brad