According to this article, NASA will use nuclear propulsion to send astronauts to Mars by 2010. Project Prometheus will take 2 months to arrive at Mars rather the 6 month trip the current space flight technology at 18,000mph would take. President Bush may announce the project in his upcoming State of the Union Addresse.

cool, so a war on iraq costing billions, a ship to mars, costing billions, tax relief, the vast majority of which goes to the richest 1% of the population.....

 

methinks bush isn't really all that interested in the economy.

Actually, there is a precedent to this; back in the 60s, announcing missions boosted the economy.

'back in the 60s', that still doesn't excuse bush's weapons of mass distraction though.

That's fast. Does it travel through the ether? :jk:

 

I'm curious about the race for Mars. We'd really like to know what's there (or was there), but what's the rush? It'll still be there by the time we can build probes with a 2 day transit period.

 

 

[disclaimer - tired and academically exhausted]

what's the rush?

 

China... heh.

Don't sweat it.

 

They're racing India to the moon for the next 50 years.

There is no rush. If there was a rush, we would have been there decades ago. The government doesn't adequately fund science.

Once we start having the ability to colonize other planets, we'll be alot more motivated towards progress.

Our engineers need jobs. Jeez, they're mopping at rest homes. Some solid contracts for Aerospace would do wonders for the country.

Just aman

Originally posted by Radical Edward

cool, so a war on iraq costing billions, a ship to mars, costing billions, tax relief, the vast majority of which goes to the richest 1% of the population.....

 

methinks bush isn't really all that interested in the economy.

 

 

You have figured that out just now ?

Originally posted by Adam

 

 

You have figured that out just now ?

 

 

 

King George Bush the first was careless enough, not mentioning his best son king George W. Bush the second which is a much worse character of tyrant.