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« on: January 09, 2013, 06:44:37 PM »
These people do not have the ability to put anyone on Mars. I'm not saying this in a NASA fanboy way too, as NASA doesn't have the capability either due to funding issues. Our best bet for a Mars mission in the next 30 years is with private companies that have already proven themselves capable of reaching this goal today, such as SpaceX. There are also a number of issues on getting to Mars tech wise that people always seem to forget. Things like radiation which could kill or cause permanent genetic damage to astronauts over long periods of exposure. Propulsion is another issue, we really can't use chemical rockets on that type of scale, so we have to find an alternative such as ion or nuclear engines. There was a really great lecture outlining some of them that I saw a while ago, unfortunately I can't find it right now and if I find it I will post it in this topic or make a new one if this has died.
TL;DR
We are probably not going to Mars in the next 30 years, so this website is basically pointless.