(Neil) Armstrong: Mars trip will be easier
Armstrong: Mars trip will be easier
Human flight to Red Planet 20 years away at the least
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Posted: 9:20 a.m. EDT (13:20 GMT)
"It will be expensive," he said. "It will take a lot of energy and a complex spacecraft. But I suspect that -- even though the various questions are difficult and many -- they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (space program) in 1961."
Much more at: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/09/06/armstrong.mars.ap/index.html