mikehudack: evangotlib: thegongshow: Surface of Mars (Via U or Arizona) I just changed the background image of my blog to a picture of the surface of Mars. More at The Big Picture. These are amazing images.  Click through to see them all.  Going into space would be so awesome. We need to retire the Space Shuttle and, potentially, shut down ISS. We need to quickly finish work on the Shuttle replacement program, probably the Ares. And, I believe, we need to establish a base on the Moon. Why a base on the Moon? Because it will provide excellent practice for Mars. Both because it will give astronauts and NASA experience in colonization and because it will prepare the public for a proper Mars mission. Nothing in the space program can possibly be more exciting than a permanent human presence on a celestial body. A Moon colony will galvanize the American public and the world. And then we can proceed to Mars. This is our calling as human beings. This is our calling as Homo Sapiens. We must spread our genome among the stars to prevent an extinction event. We must explore. We must colonize. It is our destiny. Just as Europeans once conquered the Americas we — all humans this time — must conquer the stars.
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Surface of Mars (Via U or Arizona)

I just changed the background image of my blog to a picture of the surface of Mars. More at The Big Picture.

These are amazing images.  Click through to see them all.  Going into space would be so awesome.

We need to retire the Space Shuttle and, potentially, shut down ISS. We need to quickly finish work on the Shuttle replacement program, probably the Ares. And, I believe, we need to establish a base on the Moon.

Why a base on the Moon? Because it will provide excellent practice for Mars. Both because it will give astronauts and NASA experience in colonization and because it will prepare the public for a proper Mars mission. Nothing in the space program can possibly be more exciting than a permanent human presence on a celestial body. A Moon colony will galvanize the American public and the world. And then we can proceed to Mars.

This is our calling as human beings. This is our calling as Homo Sapiens. We must spread our genome among the stars to prevent an extinction event. We must explore. We must colonize. It is our destiny. Just as Europeans once conquered the Americas we — all humans this time — must conquer the stars.

Source: hirise.lpl.arizona.edu

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  1. digitalsoma reblogged this from dpstyles
  2. ronenreblogs reblogged this from spytap and added:
    Surface of Mars. (More at The Big Picture.)
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    evangotlib:thegongshow:...background image of my blog to
  4. dpstyles reblogged this from hifirandy and added:
    Sent my re-blog with commentary, so re-bloggin’ again. REEEEEE-BLLLOOOOGGGGG! Great post by Mike H here.. and if you’re...
  5. hifirandy reblogged this from dpstyles and added:
    Just as I thought … outer space is tiiiiiiight.
  6. dpstyles reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    Great post by Mike H here.. and if you’re into this stuff, I 100% recommend Kim Stanley Robinson’s series about...
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  8. misterhippity reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    “We must spread our genome among the stars to prevent an extinction event.” Prevent one … or cause more of them?
  9. tanya77 reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    Google is already on it with “Google Mars”.
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    We need to retire the Space Shuttle and, potentially, shut down ISS. We need to quickly finish work on the Shuttle...
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    These are amazing images. Click through...see them all. Going into space would be so...
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