Potential being the key word, things like this always start off with ambitious dates, but then reality of thinking it all the way through hits
Russia are asking all ISS participants to work together for this mission
Jorge - 2/4/2008 12:38 AM
tnphysics - 1/4/2008 11:34 PM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article539874.ece
Huge potential embarrassment for NASA.
Ah, today is truly the holiday that keeps on giving...
Excellent. Wasn't even thinking that way. I've been sick the past few days and had no idea that today [well, yesterday now] is April fools day.
Richard Branson and Google have an April fool's Mars Colony called Virgle by 2015. The best bit is the 30 seconds of planetwide YouTube humiliation as people are suckered into explaining why they think they have the Right Stuff.
Priceless.
Oh, the Time article is from July 2005. Old news really. Russian Mars plans always sound like an April Fool's.