Comment Re:Funding (Score 1) 169
My estimate is that this will happen in 2050. NASA is saying more like 2035, but I don’t have faith in Congress to fund them.
I, in fact, hope that NASA does not fund a manned mission to Mars. Spending billions of dollars to send people to Mars so they can hide in a hole in the ground praying that the next re-supply mission will get through is a complete waste. Anything useful a human can do on Mars can be done by a robot for much less money and loss of life.
The 1960's called. They want their arguments for not sending a man to the moon back.