I won’t hold my breath
Kewl, it’s liable to be 100 years old by that time...
Can NASA spare time away from muslim outreach to be concerned with space exploration?
/sarc
When did NASA get back into the space program?
Half this country on food stamps; our borders wide open and a Marxist in the White House and people actually think we’re going to Mars?
Some people already seem to live there.
That’s nice .. is NASA going to begin a Kickstart project to fund the trip?
Well, they solved the patch problem. That pretty much ties up loose ends. Except, I guess, for a few minor details involving propulsion and life-support.
No feasible way to get to Mars, nor is there likely to be any feasible way to get there in the foreseeable future. But I surely will be holding my breath before that happens! (And pushin' up daisies!)
Well, first things first. How about fielding a usable rocket again? It is a total embarrassment that we have to rely on other countries for current launching needs.
Phew, got the hard part out of the way!
Now, just the simple part remains of getting there and paying for it.
I’ve been over to the space center a couple of times. Its really quite sad the way they focus so much on something that happened so long ago. Its even more sad how little has happened since.
Are they going to give it to the Chinese or the Russians?
We’re broke. If we sold California to Mexico we might have some bucks left over (after the foreign aid is doled out) to fire a couple of bottle rockets. Case closed.
NASA is good at making announcements and releasing artistic renderings.... and launching nothing
They had better know Mandarin so they can speak to approach control.
A number of years ago on eBay there was a painting of the moon landing along with a patch that went to the moon with Buzz Aldrin including a letter from him for sale. Originally the patch and the painting was donated to a charity auction and sold for around 20 thousand. The winner of the auction was selling it some years later on ebay with a starting bid of 5 thousand IIRC. I was very tempted to bid on it but didn’t and of course now regret not doing so. Again IIRC the ebay sale price was 6 or 7 thousand. From what I had read on the sale page each astronaut on Apollo 11 had half a dozen patches on the various suits they wore. So this one was one of the six that Aldrin wore during Apollo 11. I was quite amazed this was up for sale on ebay. It is not everyday you come across something that went to the moon that you could hang in your den.
My son has a patch that flew on the shuttle and a certificate of authenticity. It’s a cool thing to have. He begins college in 3 weeks studying astronautical engineering.
Which shoulder will the Chinese astronauts wear the patch on?
This is nothing but bullcrap. America isn’t going to send astronauts, or even anymore spacecraft to Mars anytime soon. Muslim outreach is NASA’s new mission.
We're too broke, so it won't be Americans taking the first steps on Mars.
Not in this fiscal lifetime anyway.