Did America purchase Mars for 200 billion?
367159
No, we signed a treaty long ago that no nation owns any celestial real estate. \n\nAnd who did he buy it from?
286834
No. There was just lots of oil that a "few" Americans wanted.
1178517
It appears there is nothing that can't be bought!!\n\nWhat concerns me is this kind of unreasonable behavior\n\n\n"According to the U.S. Treasury Department, America's first 42 Presidents, from George Washington (1789) to Bill Clinton (2000), borrowed a combined total of $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions. From 2000 to 2006, the Bush White House has borrowed $1.05 trillion alone. Yes, that means we have borrowed in the last 5 years what we had previously borrowed in the first 211 years of our country."
729300
they did sell it, right after the mexican american war "Surveys consistently show 70% of Mexican citizens believe the U.S. stole the Mexican Cession illegally, when in fact the U.S. bought the land for $18 million after the Mexican-American War."  ( http://www.noinvaders.org/home.shtml  scroll down to "this is mexico we are taking over" )  and 18 million back then was still a dirt cheap price for the amount of land the US got.
69734
No they have not. The USSR had 3 programs to explore the moon, L-1, L-3 and Luna, and they were scaled back when it was realized that the Americans would beat them. They had planned a landing for 1968 when some disasterous setbacks made them realize it was not going to be possible. The Americans of course landed in 1969.
334966
Yes, and I wish I could find that link I read years ago.  The above methods are acceptable, but this method used up “A LOT” of energy, and was not perfected.  When I worked at NASA years ago there was a joke about it. Now there is something to it they have found.  Like anything else you through enough money at it you will get something out of it.  So for your government money watchers I recall something like only 5 to 8 % of this research budget comes from government grants. It really does not have any military value as of yet.
364030
NASA's 2006 budget is in excess of $16 billion. The agency says it understands its fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayer. But by any standard, the space program is wasting many, many millions of dollars. \n\nAnd now, it has its eye on returning to the Moon and a manned mission to Mars. Schatz says that shouldn't be the focus. "Let's just get NASA in shape to do what it's doing now as opposed to expanding its mission into something that's far larger than anything they've done before
72808
hmm..wasting money on what?....exploring? Yes maybe your right, maybe the monies should be used for Bush's wars...not enough suffering yet after all the hundreds of billions wasted on death and greed...\nmaybe its just time the U.S. brought in a new leader..a true leader..wasting money going to Pluto..is certainly more noble than going to war
1147442
Actually for the larger industrialized nations space research and exploration is a relatively small fraction of their overall national budgets, and space research, if used wisely, can help reduce, if not cure, some problems by monitoring crops for diseases or drought, help track weather, animal and fish populations, enivironmental problems, and provide new technologies and materials that can improve healthcare and life in general, and of course there is the knowledge gained about the Universe in which we live. I do agree that there is a great deal of money wasted in the space program (I think the Space Shuttle and International Space Station are make-work money pits that should be closed off), but I think the more germain question is why so many trillions of dollars worldwide are spent on weapons, corporate greed, and subsidizing the lifestyles of the already wealthy. Cutting even just one major weapons purchase program in practically every country around the globe could give each child of those nations a free college education.\n\nI think an argument also has to be made for the simple human need to know and understand what space is and what's in it. Questions like "Where did the Moon come from and what is is made of?" would never have been answered if we hadn't gone there. Sending robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and other planets in our solar system give us some hint of what those worlds really are like and fire our imaginations, and sending telescopes, such as the Hubble, up into space have given us a clearer, and often very beautiful picture of what the Cosmos is made up of and how it got here. Theories aren't worth much unless there is data to back them up, and these sorts of instruments help us gather data in ways that human eyes or ground-based equipment never could, and while it's true most of us go through life occupied by the more mundane pursuits of life, but all of us at some time have wondered what this Universe is all about and what our place is in it, and I think the questions being asked here bear that out. Exploring space helps answer some of those questions.\n\nIt isn't legitimate space programs (ie., non-militarized) that are starving the poor; it's the insatiable, contemptible greed of death merchants like Lockheed-Martin and greedhead corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel who want to enslave us that do...\n\nN.
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Of course, we landed on the moon. C'mon, there would have had to been a massive conspiracy of hundreds of people employed at NASA and involved in the effort including hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers. There is no real debate.\nGo back? For what. It is a dead planet and we have learned what we need to know. The only reason to go back would to be to mine for valuable minerals which would be way to expensive at this point in time.
1166316
Hmm $25 million. That could buy a lot of weapons for Al Qaida couldn't it?
122667
i know the "space race" started with russian launching sputnik . that shocked america into  becoming  interested in space.
426189
see for yourself.\n\nhttp://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/index.html
203540
Um we have done this for decades.  US corporations have also purchased real estate in other countries
408969
I think the Apollo budget was used for "black projects"...secret aircraft, secret bases etc.\n\nThe astronauts were in earth orbit the whole time and mission control were looking at pre-programmed readings so they were not even aware of what was going on. That is why it was easy to keep this a secret all of these years. Only a handful of top people new what was going on. The lunar rocks were collected at the poles (meteorites), and lunar video was shot in the Nevada dessert at night where much of the Apollo budget went to their military base.\n\nThe moon has been scanned/photographed with radar, so has mars and we can see those images/grids of the planet's surface. I recall even seeing one of the robotic landers and it's tread marks in the sand from a mars satellite image!\n\nI would think the lunar satellite images would definitely be taken and shown to all of us of the Apollo landing site since it's such a big historical achievement?\nWhere are those images?
1059185
Yeah.   I reckon we should first study Mars in its pristine form for a few decades.   By then we'll have the technology to terraform it, so we'll have somewhere to run to when we screw up Earth.
852611
YOU ARE RIGHT.\nAmerica is making fool, they never landed on moon, it is all fake story.