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Yesterday I was watching a TV show about Mars and how to get there, there was a NASA space engineer showing his plans to go there and they seemed very possible with the current technology, so I started to wonder why the predictions are to 201x and up, they say budget but if many nations participate like in the ISS project budget wouldn

As our good friend Edward "eddie" Rickenbacker once said:

"Aviation is proof, that given the will, anything is possible."

 I would love to see a man go to Mars during my lifetime.

besides all those kinda things make people feel good. . . . .

I have to wonder why anyone would want to go there in the first place or what purpose it would serve. This would be a completely different prospect to going to the Moon. As I understand things it would take about six months to get there. Then you would have to land safely & survive in a hostile environment for a given period. The most dangerous part would be in returning to Earth - unless the idea is to stay there permanently. I don't think anyone has tried that yet, even with a robot.

PS. Poly. It seems we both spend a lot of our time sitting around.   V V V

I does seem possible in the near future

Trying to get a man on mars is even in 2010 like trying to shoot a man to the moon with a V-2.