CrossTalk on Space: Mars or Bust!

On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk he asks his guests whether spending billions of dollars to send humans to Mars is really worth the money.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• RT
• Russia Today
• Peter Lavelle
• Obama space program
• moon program
• mission to mars
• space exploration
• solar system
• NASA
• asteroid
• Amitai Etzioni
• Nick Spall
• Richard Tresch Fienberg
• science
• technology

[AdamEtheredge]

The old man (Amiti) is EXACTLY the reason I want to get on a spaceship and go live on another planet. Following cowards like him will only lead to the stagnation and oblivion of the human race, on one little planet, filled with idiots who are FAR interested in blowing each other up over moronic religious garbage.

[sharingundragon]

and also just immaging what advadnce there will be in the scientific learning and material by going to mars.

also mind you astriodes/mars/moon have lots of raw material like iron and nickel that we could use.

[Squallleonheartfan]

I want Russia and China to lead in space exploration! Too many religious nuts here in the US.

[exxalte]

Skip mars and go to big asteriods with water and methaneice. Nobody needs mars when you can get everything much easier in the asteroid belt even some degree of articficial graviti since some are quite big

[TheDRUNKCANADIAN]

Breaking new boundaries is what drives human technological advances, despite the ability of machines to go to Mars, humans in first person could be equally effective. Then again machines are some of the best.

[DarknessMadeFlesh]

00:27-00:33 LOL the alien pop-up

[Orange6oy]

I like the old man. He got a good pt! Robots are better in space than us *v* and everyone hates him

[ThisBoyTV]

The first people to build a colony on the moon win!!

[aciamanusa]

@shaan5262 Go read a non_russian history book you ape. The American landed on the Moon and we have robots on Mars. Something you blind patriot Russians can't do.

[rocketshipstud6]

screw $ billions for voodooer haiti...aids for southern africa...and $ for israel and egypt!....screw all scum!...spend american money only on american conquest of space and manned occupation of the solar system...screw all foreign aid $ to any islamic countrys!...go lick uranus!...worms!

[rocketshipstud6]

asteroid mining and interception and manned mars missions will require nuclear engines like nerva or vasimir...(we will see what heavy lift booster nasa builds in the next 5 years)...apophis killer asteroid meteor is incomming in 2029 or friday 13th april 2036!.." when captain america will throw his mighty shield!"

[rocketshipstud6]

space-x falcon-9 rocket with dragon (7 astronaut crew capsule) for low earth orbit missions to iss space station ...testing starts 8 may 2010!...american free enterprise capitalism will defeat all rivals!..."fist of fire!"