Tells Nasa to 'speed up' Mars landing
Alan Yuhas
Monday 24 April 2017 12.58 EDT
... Trump asked: “Tell me, Mars, what do you see a timing for actually sending humans?”
“Well, I think as your bill directed it would be in the 2030s,” Whitson said, alluding to a bill signed by the president last month, which outlined a mission by 2033. “Unfortunately spaceflight takes a lot of time and money, so getting there will take some international cooperation.”
“Well, I think we want to do it in my first term or at worst in my second term,” Trump said, “so I think we’ll have to speed that up a little bit” ...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/24/nasa-astronaut-donald-trump-mars-time-in-space
It might be nice to have a proven technology in place that can get to Mars, land safely, relaunch, and return to earth before we start hopefully sending folk that way
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...well done 
