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Russia Wants to Launch Manned Mission to Mars
Raul654 writes "The Maimi Herald, via the Associated Press, is reporting that Russia wants to launch a manned mission to mars. The article says that the Russians are hoping to work closely with the European Space Agency and/or NASA. The 6 person, 440 day trip would cost around $20 billion. Should be interesting to see how this shapes up. See also here for mirror article."
Maybe they'll spend an extra couple billion and have six ladders for everyone to step off at the same time.
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Let's all vote for who we want to send to Mars!
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> and then tell me how we build it for free!
Easy.
1. collect underpants
2. wait
3. travel to mars!!
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the russians have a better chance at this project than the americans. why? because safety america wouldn't allow a NASA ship to go to mars without backup systems backing up other systems backing up other systems, which costs a LOT of money for all that redundancy.
the russians have a less altrusitic attitude towards their cosmonauts; perhaps a bit like their military personnel.
i mean, when the russians are ready to launch this mission, and it blows up on the pad, their attitude is like, 'whelp, that sucks. here, stick 6 more guys in that other rocket and lets try it again'.
Maybe it could just be like taking that millionaire sponsorship thing to another level. Get Pepsi to chip in as well, to have their logo on everything.
I vote for Britney to go along as fuck toy / mascot.
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It's a great thing, this quest. Someone needs to do it, and it's likely that Russia is the best candidate because they'll need financial help...
Well, there's the problem. I'm all for space exploration, because there are many intellectual, scientific and national pride benefits to this pursuit.
But this seems to me to be the nation-scale equivalent of buying a new E-Class on your credit card while you're still trying to get caught up with the electric bill (and gas bill, and rent, and food, and...).
I think Russians could be better served by spending this money on infrastructure to attract businesses and build employment for their people. Space exploration should probably be the realm of rich nations only. Once they've got their fiscal house in order, I'd love to see the Russians come out and play again.
perhaps we can hitch a ride. This could become the first world-uniting space mission. Other countries could become involved, perhaps the world will come closer to the realization that we're all neighbors.I thought that's what the International Space Station was for?
Unless, of course, Microsoft 'donates' the system software. In that case...well, there's still China.I can see the AP wire story now: "In other news, officials at Microsoft say that a kind of error known technically as a 'buffer overrun' was responsible for last year's launch of the manned mission to Mars becoming a manned mission to the sun. Mr. Gates himself blamed the problem on catering to obsolete open standards."
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If Microsoft helped fund a mission to Mars, I sure wouldn't hold it against them. Just keep their software off of the transport vehicles. In fact, keep it about 2-3 miles away from anything to do with the mission.