Most people wouldn't believe it if we did. ** -- MikeVT85 07/22/2019 10:51PM
Space race peeps: two Q's: 1st, could we be on Mars by now (already)??? -- bourbonstreet 07/22/2019 4:09PM
We are already there and we have a bar. -- MEHOKIE 07/22/2019 8:12PM
Yes, if you are speaking only of technical challenges. -- VToncologyNurse 07/22/2019 7:10PM
Whoever goes there will die there. It's a one way trip. ** -- EDGEMAN 07/22/2019 5:59PM
Von Braun gave the Nixon adminstation a proposal to Mars by 1985 -- Wythe Hokie 07/22/2019 5:01PM
The basing from earth orbit was key to going beyond the moon per Von Braun ** -- Hokie Bird 94 07/23/2019 12:58AM
Perhaps with the will and the bucks -- Nelsonia Hokie 07/22/2019 4:59PM
You young whipper snappers. Old news. -- Stork 07/22/2019 4:39PM
Is that Mr. Hand? ** -- RoswellGAHokie 07/22/2019 5:07PM
...aloha Mr Hand ** -- chumley 07/22/2019 6:00PM
I had a thing for Mrs. Brown ** -- Brown Water 07/22/2019 4:41PM
She was my Algebra 3 teacher in HS, you rascal. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 5:14PM
Herman's Hermits Mrs Brown? -- Stork 07/22/2019 4:45PM
Just from an engineering perspective? Yes we could have easily been there -- HokieAl 07/22/2019 4:29PM
How do we get there considering the weighty/needy issues of shielding? -- bourbonstreet 07/22/2019 4:35PM
Deflector shields, naturally ** -- Baltimore Hokie 07/22/2019 8:11PM
...I read in an astrophysics journal the Brits have a modest prototype one -- bourbonstreet 07/22/2019 10:58PM
Once you get outside Earth's atmosphere -- Tafkam Hokie 07/22/2019 4:48PM
That's ludicrous speed. ** -- Nortazhokie 07/22/2019 7:43PM
That's not current tech. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 4:51PM
Solar sail is current tech. That is likely what we would choose if -- Tafkam Hokie 07/22/2019 4:57PM
Thought warp drive was current tech? ** -- EDGEMAN 07/22/2019 6:03PM
Solar sail scalable to a manned Mars mission is not current. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 5:02PM
NASA engineer told me it was. If you've got a better source -- Tafkam Hokie 07/22/2019 10:56PM
(fold) -------------------->** -- PhotoHokieNC 07/23/2019 05:54AM
FWIW, that wasn't meant to be a "drop the mic" reply -- Tafkam Hokie 07/23/2019 10:15AM
Got it, thx. It appears NASA's already doing the origami (Vid) -- PhotoHokieNC 07/23/2019 12:17PM
Why does it have to be manned to start? And when it is manned -- HokieAl 07/22/2019 4:43PM
Just out of pure curiosity, from what human resource pool would people -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 4:50PM
Death row? ** -- Brown Water 07/22/2019 7:03PM
Post of the last night! ** -- PhotoHokieNC 07/23/2019 05:55AM
The Dirty Dozen ** -- TomTurkey 07/22/2019 7:31PM
Send the Tesla guy....a bit of added hot air propulsion couldn't hurt -- DonHo-kieHi 07/22/2019 6:02PM
Read his proposal and you'll have your answer on how to -- 133743Hokie 07/22/2019 7:03PM
I’d go. Why the hell not. Have to put a LOT of bourbon and weed on board. ** -- CPRVHokie 07/22/2019 6:09PM
And real boobiez ** -- Brown Water 07/22/2019 7:45PM
Hell yeah. Maybe some blow. Look, you’re telling me I’m going into history -- CPRVHokie 07/22/2019 9:37PM
The gene pool -- HokieAl 07/22/2019 4:56PM
Who knows? Maybe just hold a national lottery. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 5:15PM
...lol, well, yah; maybe it has to be that way, too. ** -- bourbonstreet 07/22/2019 4:47PM
Simple; warp drive and/or a worm hole ** -- Brown Water 07/22/2019 4:42PM
First we need to harness the power of tacheon particles. -- Tafkam Hokie 07/22/2019 4:49PM
We wouldn't have been there for at least another 10-12 years after -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 4:17PM
Why? you planning to open a photo bizness there? I don't think with the -- AZHokie59 07/22/2019 4:26PM
We already have the tech and capsule/rocket capability. And while -- PhotoHokieNC 07/22/2019 4:33PM