^ Thanks, I didn't know he had a history of doing this - these fresh news reports should have delved further into his back story and failed to do so. Thanks for pointing it out. At any rate I hope the US space program doesn't end after the last space shuttle flight next month. I hope someday we will make it to Mars.
A while ago they were speculating that it'd be immensely cheaper to send people to Mars and simply not bring them back, and I have to say that if I were even remotely eligible to become an astronaut, I'd put my name down for such a mission. Earth is really pissing me off. I would kill to go to another planet.