For those of you concerned about the a new program involving some sort of weapons system I am afraid my earlier post about flying carpets does in fact have a very capable weapons system, delivered by carpet bombing of course!
We at one time did have a program to reach Mars by the mid '80's. This was way back in the mid '60's. At the time it was all on paper of course and got cancelled due to budget cuts.
I think this was a good idea at the time. Putting ships in orbit to deploy sats, Skylab, all that reaped much more than a trip to Mars. What has always concerned me was the fact that we have been very careful to prevent microbes from being introduced back to Earth yet until recently we have not done so in introducing Earth microbes elsewhere.
It is possible we have already killed some sort of life on Mars with earlier landings in this way.
I feel the number one goal should be to get a replacement program for the shuttle and maintain it.
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