Comments on: China and Russia Announce Joint Mars Mission

By: JohnG

JohnG — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:07:10 +0000

Well we had enough spare money lying around to pork up the emergency defense spending bill, maybe we can borrow some of that money for the space program.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:37:20 +0000

MARS, BITCHES!

Sorry, I just had to say that.

"Red" Planet indeed.

By: jwb

jwb — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:07:11 +0000

John: we don't have the spare money, because we pissed it away killing people who don't look like us from the other side of the planet. With the trillion dollars we could have established a moon base. Sigh.

By: John McClure

John McClure — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:58:28 +0000

The only thing that will boost the space race is if the US puts 10 billion up in prizes for everything from inexpensive launch vehicles to highly efficient propulsion.

The only thing that will propel a real space race is the economics of it. If going to space will create wealth, people will go there in droves.

By: John Norris Brown

John Norris Brown — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:52:24 +0000

I couldn't agree more.