Is it true that Bush is going to send someone to Mars in a couple of years?
446109
They are going to try and explore the possibilities of living on Mars in the future due to the fact that they believe the Earth will eventually become unlivable due to the warming of the planet. It probably won't happen in our lifetime but Man will pollute the Earth, the air, and the water so much that we will not be able to survive. The hole in the ozone layer is becoming a major problem.
1097610
There is no longer life on mars so to answer your question, No.
1163474
I'm just personally wondering why they haven't tried in a very long time. Before it was just a pissing match with Russia. I know of many conspiracy theories out there showing things that contradict, but I don't know nor do I care.\n\nThe current Bush administration should care either to try to spend tax dollars on more pointless Moon and Mars missions. They should maybe try to focus on all of the stuff happening here on the ground first!
585804
Well, someone out there seems to posess the technology to turn a chimp into a presidential candidate, so I guess it's possible. \n\n(Maybe they get tips from the aliens that crashed in Roswell)
60821
We have been able to navigate and land unmanned craft from the Earth to Mars, however it is a lot different than traveling the 240,000 mile to the moon.  Mars is millions of miles away from Earth.  We just last week launched an unmanned craft to Pluto, it is the fastest traveling spacecraft to date and it is going to travel 36,000 miles an hour and take 9 years to get there.  The amount of dedication and logistics to send a manned spacecraft to Mars sucessfully is probably the biggest question.  I believe when we can get the traveling time down we will see manned missions to Mars, it won't be money that keeps us from going what's another trillion dollars in National Debt amoung friends anyway?
336878
Manning Mars is not due to any political reasons like the same for moon during cold war.\nEstablishing human civilization in Mars is very necessary for saving homo sapiens, given earth can face disaster at any time.\nSo not only rich, scientists, people from all spheres of life will be required to go to Mars for humanity to prosper there.\nIt seems another 20-25 years will be taken (based on various articles I have read).
426189
see for yourself.\n\nhttp://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/index.html
952792
Listen mate, you know you're not supposed to tell anyone about this.\n\nI'm reporting you to the Great Leader. He is going to be mad as f***.\n\nYou people make me sick, going around creating time/space anomalies just for the h*ll of it.\n\n(Don''t worry, people of the 21st century........you will not hear from this person again.......he will be repatriated. And given a right good kicking.)
1074192
Yes and I think it will happen soon because of Bush mate.
838209
I think it is going to be an interesting couple of years! I don't know if Bush will Veto everything!
584827
you still have another 2.5 yrs under Bush.\n\nGood luck
88456
Sure why not? heck China is planning a Moon landing itself so I think America needs to start heading back up to the Moon before China does.\n\nNot to mention if we wanna get to Mars then we might wanna start building a station on the Moon so that we can accomplish our goal of getting to Mars.
398820
Living on Mars wont happen for a long time, \nFirstly we dont have the technology so we couldnt get there even if we wanted to\nSecondly it would cost a HUGE amount of money just to get the technology and then even more money to go into space\nThirdly, the journey to Mars is a couple of months at least so it would take a long time to get there and we dont know the effects of deep space radiation on the body yet so all the astronauts could die\nIn the near future ( say 50 years)  it is very unlikely the someone will go to Mars\nIn the far future ( say at least 100 years) then it is very likely\n\nAlthough if you mean someone living in an atmosphere on Mars rather than going there in a spaceship and landing and then coming back, well, it will take hundreds upon hundreds of years to do that as we have to create an atmosphere on Mars first and that is very very hard
907301
It generally takes 6-9 months. Please read the book:"The Case for Mars" by Dr. Robert Zubrin, PhD for a down to Earth nuts and bolts scientific discussion of how to put men on Mars, written for the layman. If you have any desire to learn about the future of mankind, this is it.
238482
In January 2004 President Bush announced his plan to send Americans back to the moon and onto Mars. Those bold goals—which NASA estimates it could achieve by 2018 and 2030, respectively—would at last free the nation of the 25-year drudgery of the shuttle program. The idea raised eyebrows--not least because of its price tag, distant target dates and suspicious initial timing, at the start of the 2004 election cycle. In the two years since, however, funding has been forthcoming and design work has begun, with aerodynamic testing on scale models under way at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. While political and fiscal obstacles could still scuttle the whole plan, the ships taking shape in the NASA labs are winning deserved raves.\n\nThe thing that has made the shuttles such lethal disappointments is that they have tried to do too many things--fly like a spacecraft, land like an airplane, haul cargo like a truck. Part of the reason the Apollo ships succeeded was that they had an exceedingly clear goal: to fly to the moon and strictly obey the laws of simplicity and safety on the way. Both ships were also wisely mounted at the top of the booster that lifted them off the ground--keeping them away from the fire and foam that killed Challenger and Columbia.\n\nThe new ships will follow the old rules. The centerpiece of the stack will be the prosaically named Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), a descendant of the Apollo command module but for a few significant differences. For one thing, it will be bigger, able to carry four astronauts comfortably and six a bit more snugly--twice the load of the three-man Apollos.\n\nFor another thing, it will be equipped with solar panels, a sensible addition in a sun-drenched place like the inner solar system--and one that reduces the demands on fuel cells and batteries. It will also be able to either splash down in the water as the Apollos did or thump down under a parachute on dry desert. Finally, modern composite materials and computers will improve on the ungainly weight and clanking brain of the older ships. "It's like comparing today's 737s with the ones that flew in 1967," says Scott Horowitz, an associate administrator for NASA. "Put them side by side, and they look alike. But they're entirely different aircraft."\n\nThe new lunar lander will be similarly improved, with updated electronics and materials. It too will be a larger ship than its predecessor, big enough to carry all four astronauts down to the surface while the mother ship idles empty in lunar orbit. That not only gets the most bang for the exploratory buck but also eliminates the lonely specter of the single astronaut who used to be left to mind the orbiter while the others went prospecting below.
451282
I think if the astronauts know all this.. and are still willing to, they may as they please.. but in my opinion it's not worth it.. they should jsut keep sending satelite's up there and learn more information about mars and other information they want.
725369
He will go in two years.