[al baby]

I won’t hold my breath

[workerbee]

This is probably something everyone knows but me.... But were Neil Armstrong’s famous words “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” really his own, or were they planned ahead of time?

[ErnBatavia]

I won’t hold my breath

Me too neither....if I'm alive in the 2030's, I won't have a clue who I am, where I is, let alone give a shiite about flying to Mars, or who's doing it.

[Bobalu]

Werner Von Braun was a genius.. and also blunt and impatient.

He unequivocally stated in the early 60's that not only could he land a man on the moon before 1970 but that he could also land a man on Mars by 1985.

I believe he could have done it.

NASA is a stagnant and troubled government enterprise...the Amtrak of space.

We abandoned all of our most precious dreams and instead wasted our money on a stupid attempt at empire. We do not have the belly for empire. :-(

Another brilliant man, Robert Zubrin, says he could put people on mars for only a small fraction of what NASA thinks it will take to fund a mission. He is correct, IMO.

Zubrin is a man that a Freeper can love! He is not only a brilliant scientist and engineer, he also writes for the National Review. Look over some of his work at this URL.

http://www.nationalreview.com/author/robert-zubrin