"Jerry (Squeezably Soft Tush) Kolnick" <nospam@newsranger.com>
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No doubt the NASA within NASA had been shuttling
back and forth to Mars since at least the early 1970's.
This would have been the next logical step after
the Apollo program.  Of course NASA went to the
Moon way before the Apollo's, that was all for public consumption.

Perhaps J. O-BORG would like to come clean
and admit to what the research community already knows:
that NASA is 30 to 50 years ahead of what the tell the public.

 You moron, Jerry. Where have you been? By the way, it's an
ion engine, not ionized. HTH.

http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/tech/ionpropfaq.html

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/ion/

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/prop06apr99_2.htm

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/deepspace_propulsion_000816.html

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0104/08ds1/

Yes, NASA has had inter-stellar travel for at least 20 years now, but
your not suppose to know that!!

 Gee, I hope they're not using solar-electric for that "inter-stellar"
capability.

                                                  -Ugly Bob