NASA Probe Discovers 'Alien' Matter From Beyond Our Solar System (4 types of alien atoms)

SPACE.com ^ | 1/31/12 | Denise Chow

[17th Miss Regt]

Once VASIMIR is perfected we’ll be able to get to Mars in as little as 39 days.

Provided you don't hit rush hour traffic. If you do, all bets are off. Suggest you check sigalert.com before you set off on your journey.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Rush hour traffic...LOL!

Gotta avoid the space junk around Earth, plus active satellites in orbit, and then any asteroids or comets between here and Mars.

[BwanaNdege]

http://www.marssociety.org/home/press/tms-in-the-news/thevasimrhoax

Comments?

[Jack Hydrazine]

VF-200 200kW VASIMIR flight demonstrator to be tested on the ISS
Article dated 10MAR2011
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/ad_astra_nasa_vf200_announcement/

http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VF200

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-test-vf-200-vasimr-plasma-rocket-iss-20110310-155100-110.html

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=18382.465

Delivery time to the ISS? I haven’t found one yet.

It looks like the power needed to get to Mars will require a nuclear power plant.

[Prospero]

IBEX at SWRI.