Mission to Mars

Recently NASA has looked at two new propsals of plans to go to Mars. The details of the mission are still being looked at and should cost a whopping 2 million dollars just to finalize the plans. The launch for Mars is expected to happen sometime in 2011. But don't worry tax payers, the mission to Mars will only cost half a billion dollars. It seems all these missions going to outer space just accomplish the spending of millions of dollars. As space researchers all we have been able to determine is stars and what color each planet is. The mission is designed to researcher the climate of Mars and to understand if there could be life there. If this mission wasn't enough nonsense we also have the nine year mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt to look forward to. I personally think space research is a waste of money. The last time the United States wasted money like this is during the war we are in now. The cost of the war in Iraq has been roughly about 360 billion wasted dollars.