Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dreamof a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.
But the Republicans have a strange conception of the American Dream that makes no room for a social safety net to even the playing field and support the most vulnerable among us.