Still unable to understand the polls, I see
Mark, there's a big difference between supporting Mars rovers and supporting manned Mars missions. No more than about 1 in 7 give manned Mars flight any priority, and with the budget squeeze, that number is falling every day. More will disappear after the Mars Exploration Rovers return their images of the surface of Mars, baring their discovery of intelligently manufactured artifacts.
Once again, you have exactly one chance of ever seeing man make it to Mars, and I do mean exactly 1, and that is if the manned space infrastructure is kept intact after ISS by using it to build man tended telescopes on the Moon for NEO detection.
Otherwise, it's over.
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