| …first to an asteroid. Then Mars capture. Then Mars landing by around 2035. Meanwhile paying Russia $5 million-up per astronaut per trip to our own space station after the last Shuttle flight in 2010. And assuming private companies with no human spaceflight experience can build the human-rated machines to take over the taxiing from Russia and perform additional operations in orbit… in about three years. And confining American human spaceflight to low Earth orbit for decades. |