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Video: Senator Bill Nelson Says Obama Wants NASA To Go To Mars

Posted by on Mar 17, 2010 in Blog, Mars, NASA, Video | 1 comment

(Image Credit: NASA / ESA)

According to Senator Bill Nelson, President Barack Obama wants NASA to change course and instead prepare itself for a close encounter of the red planet.

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While this news should cheer Martian fans, it is doubtful that Obama or Nelson will be able to convince the public that a Mars mission is possible (especially during a recession).

Hopefully Nelson or Obama can provide more details as to how we will go about funding a Mars mission (outside of sending more robots that is), otherwise we can safely rule out ever seeing a man or woman creating crimson foot prints off world–at least not from America.

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  • JohnHunt

    But Bolden has also said that we'll be going to the Moon first.

    We need to go to the Moon first…for the sake of development. Develop lunar ice and metals as a resource and here's what you've got:
    – fuel for LEO to GEO, Moon, Mars, asteroids, deep space,
    – materials for LEO and lunar hotels, huge solar power satellites, huge GEO communications satellites, huge lunar observatories

    How much of this do we get by going to Mars?