[dathmar]

More of the same from government promising Mars in X years. This will just be killed off by the next president. If this was serious it would have been announced at the beginning of his 8 years. We could have even put some of the ~550 billion spent on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. We probably would have gotten more bang for our buck.

I also wonder how much of this was brought about just to point out that the US will not be supporting SpaceX's hopes of a Mars mission.

[greglindahl]

SpaceNews.com said that this announcement "largely reiterated the space policy [Obama] announced in an April 2010 speech at NASA's Kennedy Space Center..."

http://spacenews.com/nasa-to-move-ahead-with-plans-to-offer-...