NASA Wants Astronauts on Mars by 2010

Posted by jamie on Saturday January 18, 2003 @05:05AM from the sell-the-sizzle-not-the-uranium dept.

FeloniousPunk writes "According to this article in the UK Guardian, NASA intends to send a manned mission to Mars by 2010, using nuclear propulsion. President Bush may announce this project, called Project Prometheus, at the State of the Union address." Here's good background and context; for technical background, I recommend Zubrin or Stern. The JPL will be involved in developing the nuclear propulsion tech, intended to cut the interplanetary trip from six months to two. Apparently the theory is that this proposal won't get shot down like the last Mars proposal because the shorter mission will save money. Here's hoping public response has progressed beyond "oh no! did he say nuclear?!" In related news, jkcity writes: "according to this article by the BBC, the Chinese plan to have a man in space by October 2003."

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Babel by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-01-18 05:38 · Score: 0, Flamebait

President Bush may announce this project, called Project Prometheus, at the State of the Union address.

Does Babelfish support the Bush language yet? If he's going to speak about this, we commoners may need some help in understanding what he's saying.

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I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
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Bread & Circuses by MrEd · 2003-01-18 06:24 · Score: 0, Flamebait
Lessee...
- Economy tanked..... check!
- Disillusioningly amoral foreign policies across the board.... check!
- Military spending at more than one billion dollars per day.... check! [*]
Let's give those poor and grouchy folks something to dream of! What's a few billion more?

* true! That's more than $1000/US citizen/year... You may not be paying that tax today, but your kids will pay for it somehow.
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Wah!