Mars exploration – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:59:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mars exploration – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Good news: We’re going to Mars. Bad news: During Trump’s second term https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/26/good-news-were-going-to-mars-bad-news-during-trumps-second-term/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/26/good-news-were-going-to-mars-bad-news-during-trumps-second-term/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:59:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23991 Continue reading Good news: We’re going to Mars. Bad news: During Trump’s second term →]]> The Washington Post:

What we are reporting here isn’t fake news. But it doesn’t feel exactly like real news, either. It’s in that foggy realm of Trump news in which everything is slightly ambiguous and wobbly and internally inconsistent and almost certainly improvisational and not actually grounded in what you could call “government policy.”

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On being told that a reasonably ambitious plan for going to Mars would get humans there in the 2030s, Trump directed NASA to speed it up and make sure it happens between 4 and 8 years from now.

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