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Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip

Posted by michael on from the one-way-ticket dept.

Geno Z Heinlein writes "Reuters reports that astronaut John Glenn testified March 4 before the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond, saying that Bush's plan 'pulls the rug out from under our scientists' and that 'It just seems to me the direct-to-Mars [route] is the way to go.' Referring to the Moon as an 'enormously complex' Cape Canaveral, Glenn said that NASA might spend all the money getting to the Moon and never get to Mars."

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  1. Re:More short-sighted political oxdung by Pig+Hogger · · Score: -1, Redundant
    (Moderators: you can't win. I repost this because some asshole moderated this as flamebait)

    This is bullshit. Mars has no economic value yet, and squandering money to go there first is pretty stupid.

    What needs to be done is a proper gateway to the solar system, properly anchored at a Lagrange point. From there, the whole solar system will be a plaything.