The Cold War produced supersonic jets, interstate highways, a manned lunar landing and the Internet.
There is uncertainty in sending a manned mission to the moon, yet that happened.
Currently, Nasa has small-scale studies but no plans for a manned mission to Mars.
The scheme has also attracted interest as a possible long-term power source for a manned mission to Mars.
For the past two years, Russia has asked NASA to help with a manned space flight to Mars.
With respect to a manned, one-way mission to Mars, I suspect such questions will fall on deaf ears.
The military originally had envisioned a drone that could stay in the skies hours longer than a manned aircraft.
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This will be a manned mission, and will deliver two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station.
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At the same time we are trying to solve climate change, police the world and send a manned mission to Mars.
For example, the robotic mission would help develop the precision flying techniques demanded by a manned mission to a near-Earth asteroid.
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Eventually, ice deposits could provide water for a manned lunar base, which would otherwise have to bring its water expensively from earth.
And, for those space-cadets who still dream of a manned mission to the planet, there is also the Mars radiation environment experiment.
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They have set their own target of 2020 for a manned landing.
The latest, relatively lame, thinking is that NASA should use whatever new technology is funded to attempt a manned landing on an asteroid.
However, in 2010, Swiss balloonist Bertrand Piccard plans to launch Solar Impulse, a manned plane in which he will attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
But now they could become humankind's next destination in space, if a new proposal for a manned mission to an asteroid comes to fruition.
While it may not sound as epic as a manned trip to the Moon or to Mars, the horizons for science and technology will be expanding in 2017.
He chose the goal of a manned moon mission because with any lesser target, advisors told him, the Russians would likely win the race, given their technological capabilities.
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There will also be an additional 10 "safety and acceptance" firings that will explore some of the rocket's limits, to certify the system for use in a manned vehicle.
That trip usually takes about two days, but after tests with three previous cargo vessels, the trip was made for the first time with a manned flight and set a new record.
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We have the technology and ability to exploit the resources found on the moon and in the asteroid belt as well as sending a manned mission to Mars to set up a permanent base.
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Given that Orion is a manned capsule, these systems would no doubt need to be taken to a new standard of assurance and adapted for deep-space operation, but the proposition seems very well suited to ATV's capabilities.
Many sceptics will undoubtedly question why any country would choose to invest in future space exploration, including a manned mission to Mars, while there are so many unsolved problems on our planet, from HIV to malaria to poverty.
The Mars Society is a privately funded organization dedicated to promoting human exploration of the Red Planet, and the recent find will give the society's president Dr Robert Zubrin and his team more hope for a manned mission.
The three-meter (nine-foot) invertebrate was filmed from a manned submersible during one of 100 dives in the Pacific last summer in a joint expedition by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Discovery Channel and Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science.
Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.
Right now, NASA is dependent on Russia for manned flights to the International Space Station until a new manned program is completed.
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It was designed to build spacecraft for a return manned spaceflight to the moon by 2020.
Building and running a permanently manned lunar base alone will be incredibly expensive.
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