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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

it all sounds nice but we are still a long ways off from establishing any kind of settlement there and besides with all the squabbling that humans do HERE or Earth we all can't come together and finance a trip together. You think we would ahve done that by now..I mean hey...we got a hooptie of a space station in orbit so if we ALL pooled our resources, we ALL could go to Mars. However, you know behind the scenes everyone is fighting to be the first country there.

I think we could go now. We have the technology, so why not?

Well, I really don't think anyone is fighting to see who goes first anymore. When the Cold War died, the space race died with it. If the Cold War was still going on, I'll betcha we would have landed someone on Mars 8 years ago. The Soviet space program attempted two launches in 1988 to explore Mars and it's moon Phobos that met with disappointment, continuing a streak of bad luck that pretty much has plagued every Soviet or Russian Mars mission. So because of that also, I don't think we've really been that pressed to go. It's funny how after the launch of Sputnik, we went to the moon soon after. I guess our government now sees it as since we have no one to compete against, why go?