"By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth," Obama said. "And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it."
Critics such as Dr. Robert Zubrin identify a marked difference in tone between this speech and President John F. Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the moon" speech. Zubrin is the founder of the Mars Society, an international association committed to furthering the goal of exploration and settlement of Mars.
"I have to say that I was very disappointed with President Obama's speech, which claimed a nominal goal of sending humans to Mars but put it so far in the future that he doesn't have to do anything real toward achieving it," Zubrin says. "Mars is the right goal, but it needs to be a goal, not a dream."
Why should Mars be a goal? And how can humans benefit from exploring it?
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I think it would be neat to send someone to Mars. I hope I'm alive to see it if it happens. In the meantime, I think they should keep sending the robot explorers and probes too- we're learning a lot that way.
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