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If we are on Mars before 2050 ill be amazed...

We have to go back to the moon first. We still dont really know what will happen to humans after 18 month in constant zero g.  We should get a better idea of that when Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko fly to the iSS for a year long mission in 2015.

That is going to be quite a thing, I look forward to that flight with great anticipation.  That will really give us some insight into what a Mars flight will look like in terms of the toll on the human passengers.

Also give us a clue into what can be done about it.

I don't tend to get that excited about the day to day of the ISS, mainly because it is always there and always going on, it is easy to loose track of it and get caught up in the launches that go on in the meantime.  Especially back in the Shuttle days.   But that will get my attention for a bit I should think.

If we are on Mars before 2050 ill be amazed...

We have to go back to the moon first. We still dont really know what will happen to humans after 18 month in constant zero g.  We should get a better idea of that when Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko fly to the iSS for a year long mission in 2015.

Don't count on it, the Obama Administration has hacked generously at NASA's budget. Orion MPCV has beens stripped down so much, I doubt it can do more than go back and forth to the space station. I know there are two versions, one for LEO, and one for BEO, however teh likelihood of a manned mission prior to q4 2017 is very remote. Some estimates dont have manned missions till 2020.

Lockheed has spent north of $9bn taken more than a decade, and still has not finished one single vehicle. By comparison North American (now Boeing) spent less than $3bn and delivered a complete Apollo spacecraft in less than 5 years.

This is not NASA's fault, it is the last two presidential administrations not supporting spaceflight. Bush fired Dan Golden, and replaced him with a penny pinching moron in Sean O'Keffe. That guy gutted NASA's long term research, killed 7 astronauts and destroyed Columbia, and then sliced into the aerodynamics research. When Mike Griffin took over he was reportedly outraged at the research that had been eliminated.

Obama killed NASA. I really dont think the agency can recover. So we ride into space on vehicles built by the guys that brought you Chernobyl. Vehicles that were designed in the early 1960's, so poorly they have to have a separate module for re-entry!

I will lay odds that Boeing's CST or even Sierra Nevada's (SpaceDev) Dream Chaser will fly before Orion. SpaceX Dragon is scheduled for the first manned flight in 2015.

It is a bad time to be a Space Cadet...

IF it was some legal issue, they could still say the due to a legal issue blah, blah, blah, SSMS 2 will be delayed. But that is not what is happening. All I want is for someone on the dev team to come here and say if this is still in development or if it has been circular filed.

Come on guys! Say something about the sim!!

P.S. Vinny don't respond to this. We ALL know what your response would be.

Vinny..in due time ..it will be released..we all have the same interest..a good thing

Hi, guys!

I'm not depressed at all!!! I'm just waiting very patiently for the new SSMS2 to be released!!!

             Cheers,
           Vincent

Ignore them, Steve. They're suffering from depression because of the delay to SSMS2

That is true.  Sorry for the over reaction.   Keep the Shuttle where she belongs Steve!  Keep her in orbit.

Ignore them, Steve. They're suffering from depression because of the delay to SSMS2

I never was good at typing..i just hit the keys on my keyboard just to share thoughts ..l really don't think upper or lower case means a thing..all I know is I have completed now sts 1/47/25/99/121/and 47..and enjoy every mission and am looking forward to the 2 and 3 dot difficulty missions..and upper or lower case whatever..i still think ssm the next one is worth waitng for..if my poor not use to forum proocale typing bugs someone out.there  .all I can say ..is forgive me for what I don't know..thanks

Hi, Steve carter!

You know better than that. Using all capital letters like what you did on your first post on the 2nd page of this thread is spamming or yelling on the forums. Thanks!

          Cheers,
       Vincent