[extropy-chat] Mars on the cheap?

[Technotranscendence]

On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:43 PM BillK bill at wkidston.freeserve.co.uk
wrote:
> Nobody seems to have mentioned that after
> the Bush plan for NASA to go to Mars was
> announced, the Russians put their hand up
> and said that they could do it a lot cheaper
> than NASA.

Cool!  Let me guess why.  It won't help the big aerospace lobby in the
US...

I also wondered why Bush & Co. didn't mention -- or I must have missed
if they did -- Mars Direct.  Hey, why don't the Mars Direct people talk
with the Russians?

Cheers!

Dan
  See "The Hills of Rendome" at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/Rendome.html