Comments on: NASA rover Curiosity lands on Mars

By: nerdblog

nerdblog — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:23:40 +0000

Here’s an answer from 1970 that covers the general idea, as well:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

By: nerdblog

nerdblog — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:58:15 +0000

You can read this for some of the benefits:

http://passporttoknowledge.com/lfm/ask/general-flights/The_reason_to_travel_to_Mars.txt

NASA’s budget is less than 0.5 percent of the overall federal budget.

Thanks!

By: anthony joseph lucchese

anthony joseph lucchese — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:41:30 +0000

I am not sure if the rover Curiosity is worth 2.5 billion dollars ! If there is something valuable up there on Mars how in the heck can we get there? One of the astronauts Neal Armstrong in an interview after the historic landing on the moon said we could land on Mars with humans around 1980′s. Moon rocks is what we found on the moon and the same will be found on Mars…..rocks that cost Americans 2.5 billion dollars!!! Lets spend our money where we can get a return back on our investment and that is on the American people!!!

By: prashant

prashant — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:33:54 +0000

good luck