Thread: Landing on MARS....Anybody care?

Hey guys, we just landed a craft on Mars and I don't hear anybody talking about a Commemorative coin yet? Heck, we commemorate births, anniversary of births, national parks, president's spouses and Olympics!

Any guesses what type of coin they should mint or if they should mint one? A new one or something we already mint? Any guesses? Just curious.....

A coin embedded with an actual piece of mars would be sorta interesting.

Why the heck did we land on Mars? I didn't know there was oil there.

What if I reminded you we've landed on Mars before? Also relevant:

Besides, if "Curiosity" was the first Mars rover, a commemorative coin would have made some sense. But there have been others before ...

Christian

Originally Posted by jasonsn

What if I reminded you we've landed on Mars before? Also relevant:

lmao.

You're right....I guessed there have been 7 prior successful landings of robotic aircraft. Now, when the first "manned" landing occurs, then we're talking coin!!!

I get a kick about the people complaining about $2 Billion spent on this project, but not the hundreds of billions thrown to bad banks and stupid blackhole projects. When a society loses the passion to explore, then there are problems.

Originally Posted by scottishmoney

I get a kick about the people complaining about $2 Billion spent on this project, but not the hundreds of billions thrown to bad banks and stupid blackhole projects. When a society loses the passion to explore, then there are problems.

Exactly! And add to that defence budgets many tens or hundreds this amount ... this price tag isn't that bad. Now come on, and get a manned mission going!

Originally Posted by andyscouse

Exactly! And add to that defence budgets many tens or hundreds this amount ... this price tag isn't that bad. Now come on, and get a manned mission going!

They'll (politicians) spend more than the price tag Curiosity cost slinging mud at one another since it's campaign/election year.

If actual humans were landing on mars there'd be more to commemorate. But Curiosity is a great achievement, though!

They could commemorate the 1909 VDB went along for the ride. Here's another thread on it. 1909 Lincoln Cent will be touching down on Mars this Sun Night

Number one, this is a coin forum, so why would any other news other than that about coins be mentioned? Number two, it was done because we are curious chimpanzees. Number three, I thought it was thrilling, worthwhile and newsworthy and I added a button to my favorites bar so I can follow it, and when and if they make a commemorative coin, I will buy one.

Originally Posted by Mary Leaky

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Now, when the first "manned" landing occurs, then we're talking coin!!!

I don't know, ask the Chinese. They seem to be the only ones actively developing a manned space program. At this point we are unable to even put a man in orbit. For the most part our space program is back to 1961.

So the next time someone says "If this country can put a man on the moon....." remember that it CAN'T. And if we seriously decided to actually go back to the moon it would probably take over ten years again.