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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ergeheilalt" data-source="post: 1423670" data-attributes="member: 3460">Whoah, sorry bout that - I missed your bit about doing a project. I just gave a speech on why the space industry should be priviatized (A and A- for the two speeches).Here is some information that you might find good for prooving your point:New Scientist Jan 31-Feb 6 "Destination Mars"-Mars is 150 times further away from the Moon-With fuel, food, a landing and launching vehicle, life support, and the like, even conservative estimates put the total weight of a mars  mission at 150 tonnes. We can currently lift 25 tonnes into low earth orbit, not to mention having to push it out of earth's gravitational pull and on it's way to Mars.-The propulsion means to get to Mars is still iffy. Chemical boosters (ie: NASA shuttle boosters) are way too heave, solar-powered ion drives are very slow, that leaves nuclear power. Try selling that to the public, sending a nuclear reactor out to space.-----This is a great issue about space and about humanity going there within the next 20 years. I highly recommend it for your project. Lots of juicy bits.Erge</blockquote>