[FPSPACE] Euro-Russian capsule: The silence is....like a vacuum

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi David - 

>Note that the prospect of spending a trillion dollars 
>spread out over a 25 year period to mount a 
>manned mission to Mars was judged to be ridiculously 
>expensive, yet the US government has pulled almost that 
>amount of money out of the hat virtually overnight 
>simply to buy some duff assets and a minority share 
>in a couple of banks.

>It puts going to Mars into a new light.

It sure does.

E.P.


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