International Space Fellowship Supports NASA

The Mars Consortium approach is an essay written by Frank Stratford. Frank Stratford is the founder and executive director of MarsDrive. His writing is focused on human space exploration and Mars settlement issues, with a special focus on researching alternative Mars transport solutions.

Frank proposes Government-funded Mars exploration with a private twist that he claims can break even regardless of project success.

Frank claims to "have heard outgoing NASA administrator Mike Griffin speak several times of “international cooperation” for a manned Mars mission, so maybe now it’s time NASA took this thought one step further. Would it conflict with the Constellation program in any way? With NASA in control I am certain they could find ways around this. We could be on the Moon in 2018 and Mars in 2020. They just have to say the word, but after 40 years of inaction on the Mars issue, even if they don’t this is something we can do."


http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1286/1