Should NASA Go to Mars?

obwhiteo said

I will probably be in the far minority here, but i think it's pointless... what did we really accomplish by "going to the moon"... or having hollywood fake that we did...whatever you believe... but seriously, we go to mars, get out look around and come home.... wow what a way to spend 100 billion dollars....

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If it is lighter, faster, stronger or more powerful now than it was in 1960, you can trace that improvement back to the space program.

We accomplished a lot.

And, one way or another, we absolutely must get off this rock. Heinlein Base on the moon and a manned mission to Mars (I might suggest Valentine Base there) will be the first steps.

Asteroid mining, wild physics experiments with limitless solar power (or nuclear), perfectly round ballbearings, a host of advancements we haven't even dreamed of yet await.

And they belong to whoever gets there first.