At first I thought this is nice and a step forward, but then it dawns on me that it's just not enough.

We walked on the moon 33 years ago and in all that time we sent out a few probes and built a space station.

We went from horse and buggy to the moon in less than 100 years. So why have we made such little progress in a third of that time when technology has advanced 10 fold since.

At that rate I thought we would have at least had boots on the martian surface by now. At this rate I don't see it happening in my time. We spend money on wars and high tech entertainment devices.

I guess they are expecting to have plenty of time on their hands in their underground bunkers huh?

I just couldn't resist posting again thanks to a few comments above. - Ask yourself why we haven't been back to the moon in a long, time. - Do you really think it has anything to do with money? (I don't.) I would be surprised if there is a manned mission to the moon again in my lifetime (est. 2056 or before). Why would I be so sure of that? - ATS can give you many explanations. My personal favorite is that the moon is being mined by an et race and they basically said (when we got there) - ok, do your pr. thing, but after that you leave and you don't come back for a long, long time. There are Republicans, there are Democrats, and there is Space. I always vote Space - perhaps that is why I write-in MYSELF for President of the USA every 4 years.