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Going Back to the Moon and Mars
An anonymous reader writes "An interesting three-part interview with author Dr. Andrew Chaikin discusses whether humans or machines could best explore the moon or Mars and even whether a crew could get along with each other for three years on an extended mission. His Mars planning draws on Apollo mission transcripts, and he cites mishaps with the Apollo 15 lunar rover almost sliding catastrophically down a mountain, an astronaut argument as to who took the most famous earthrise picture and what after 14 months in space, the Russian record-holder uses to recover his land legs: 'One vodka, one sauna'."
I'm sorry to say, but there's no way that the measely amount that NASA gets will even put a dent into those problems.
Nasa's operating budget: 15 Billion asked for
DOD's budget: 410 Billion received
I would look at about 10% of that DOD budget instead of the small NASA - they also provide the satellites as well as many other scientific studies that aren't based on space exploration.
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