Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.
People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.
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