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    Most Americans favor US returning to moon and going to Mars, new poll shows

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    1. Elevator829 on

      Do we need to? no. Should we? yes. Will we? yes. But only because we are trying to compete with China.

    3. EEcav on

      Next tell them NASA will need $100 per us citizen per year and see how many will give it to them. I would, but I’d guess many won’t. And yes in reality higher tax brackets pay more.

    4. cntrlaltdel33t on

      I used to be gung-ho about us going to Mars, but as I’ve learned more about the challenges of space travel I’ve realized we are no where near ready. We need to setup up a colony in Antarctica that can sustain itself for a year… then do the same on the moon. At that point we should consider trying to make it to mars.

    5. MintyNinja41 on

      Not going to happen lol. We’ve been “about to return to the moon!” for years at this point and whenever I check the news on it, the mission is always oh, just a year or two or three away! and it always gets pushed back. I’ll believe the America that put the Apollo astronauts on the Moon is back when the Artemis crew physically puts their boots on the lunar surface and not a second before

    6. stalinwasballin on

      I’m not an expert but it appears that travel time is too great for manned missions. Astronauts coming off the ISS can’t walk, much less functionally explore. Velocity has to increase or we create an artificial gravity to maintain biological processes. More likely probes will do most of the discovery until it’s colonization time…

    7. TheSeekerOfSanity on

      If most of America wants this it means that the current administration will continue to cut funding.

      That money will go to a select few who already have more money than the average human mind can comprehend. People need to start doing the math. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

    8. Paconianphysics on

      Welll if the USA keeps defunding education we’re not going to succeed. 🤷🏼‍♂️

    9. HallucinatedLottoNos on

      As long as somebody ELSE is sealed into the SpaceX Indentured Labor Can and not them, of course.

    10. 1leggeddog on

      we FIRST go to the moon because it is the best testing ground for us to try to live on another celestial body.

      And it can serve as a refueling station/launchpad for deeper solar system exploration.

    12. P4t13nt_z3r0 on

      Maybe we could start a GoFundMe to bribe Trump to increase the Nasa budget? I bet 10 mil would get Nasa all the funding they need. We would just have to decide if we want to send the money by buying Trump coin, settling a bogus lawsuit, or buy a few “lifetime” memberships at Mar a Lago

    13. Bob-Dolemite on

      the problem is that our “leadership” is old and crusty, thinking only of themselves and the winter of their lives. there is no legacy to pass on in their mind. thats what probably irks me more than anything. we don’t dream, aspire, make things better for those who come next. it is out of the zeitgeist

    14. nunyabidnessok on

      Return to the moon, sure. Mars? No. I’m adamantly against going to Mars because I don’t want us to discover it’s habitable. I don’t want to see humans destroy another planet when we can’t even agree on climate change on this planet. Why should we go an ruin another one?

    15. GildSkiss on

      Well it’s a good thing the only thing stopping us was a majority of Americans approving /s

    16. BrokkelPiloot on

      Funny. These are the most wasteful and useless missions one could come up with. People don’t care about the science. They just care about the adventure and the status.

    17. TinyLita1 on

      But they don’t want to protect the beautiful oxygen filled one we have now. I don’t get it.

    18. JSwartz0181 on

      I recently watched an episode of The Twilight Zone that made me think about something that I never really had before. Imagine if the tax rates that effectively allowed for us to afford going to the moon were around today!

    19. itsRobbie_ on

      Screw mars. We need to get good at/learn how to live and work on another celestial body first before we go all out and go to mars. I mean the moon is right there ready for us to learn from it. We can’t run before we learn how to walk.

    20. The_RealAnim8me2 on

      STOP TALKING ABOUT GOING TO MARS!

      First a lunar station then NEO orbital stations, then Lagrange point stations, then asteroid mining.

      After that, maybe we look at the planets merely as additional stations, but Mars is possibly the worst choice behind the hell of Venus and Mercury.

      Manned deep space exploration calls for massive resources and we won’t find them on Earth. At that level it’s a question of economics.

    21. Ajax-Rex on

      Too bad most people voted for the same politicians who just tried to effectively destroy NASA.   I hate this timeline.