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2030? I might still be alive to see that mission to Mars. Wouldn't that be something!
President Obama signed a major NASA act today (Oct. 11) that turns his vision for U.S. space exploration of asteroids and Mars into law.
The signing makes official a NASA authorization act that scraps the space agency's previous moon-oriented goal and paves the way for a manned mission to an asteroidby 2025. A manned mission to Mars is envisioned for some time in the 2030s.
This is counter productive. They just laid off employees at JPL. I have no idea how they're gonna "git-er-dun" without engineers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off 45 - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16236558?nclick_check=1 - broken link)
This is counter productive. They just laid off employees at JPL. I have no idea how they're gonna "git-er-dun" without engineers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off 45 - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16236558?nclick_check=1 - broken link)
Did you even read the link?
"A JPL contractor tells the newspaper so far people have been let go in the acquisition, housekeeping and travel accounting departments."
So I guess we'll never get to Mars because nobody at JPL will be able to get a charge code for the flight reservations and the bathrooms will be dirty.
2030? I might still be alive to see that mission to Mars. Wouldn't that be something!
President Obama signed a major NASA act today (Oct. 11) that turns his vision for U.S. space exploration of asteroids and Mars into law.
The signing makes official a NASA authorization act that scraps the space agency's previous moon-oriented goal and paves the way for a manned mission to an asteroidby 2025. A manned mission to Mars is envisioned for some time in the 2030s.
2030? I might still be alive to see that mission to Mars. Wouldn't that be something!
President Obama signed a major NASA act today (Oct. 11) that turns his vision for U.S. space exploration of asteroids and Mars into law.
The signing makes official a NASA authorization act that scraps the space agency's previous moon-oriented goal and paves the way for a manned mission to an asteroidby 2025. A manned mission to Mars is envisioned for some time in the 2030s.
20 years????
we already have unmanned on mars..obamy thinks it would take 20 years to get a man on mars.....this guy proves his incompetence more and more every day....man I though bush was bad..this guy is a joke
"A JPL contractor tells the newspaper so far people have been let go in the acquisition, housekeeping and travel accounting departments."
So I guess we'll never get to Mars because nobody at JPL will be able to get a charge code for the flight reservations and the bathrooms will be dirty.
45 out of 5000 btw.
That's only one article.
Here's another that says 1800 are going to be cut before Christmas.
we already have unmanned on mars..obamy thinks it would take 20 years to get a man on mars.....this guy proves his incompetence more and more every day....man I though bush was bad..this guy is a joke
It's one thing to launch a robot on a 1-way trip to Mars...it's another to take enough oxygen and food to sustain life, plus make a safe landing and have enough fuel, oxygen and food to take off and get back.
We probably could send men to Mars next year if they didn't plan to come back.
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Still got a reel-to-reel audio tape of Walter Conkrite anchoring during "That was one small step for man..." 
