[jblesage]

As Robert Zubrin has said, if there were an open invitation for volunteers to be the first explorers to Mars, they would be lined up coast to coast.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0009/q_n_a.html

[rbanffy]

I would not sure if anyone on my list would volunteer, but I would be more than happy to send them against their will ;-)

Mars needs politicians.