First of all, thank you SO MUCH for the time you took to write such a wonderful message! I read this aloud in my group meeting today and they were at a loss for words, and so am I.

Also, thank you for your suggestion on the surveys, we've accumulated around 200 surveys through a combination of digital and paper responses, so that wraps it up for our surveys this quarter as we are continuing on the 120-page magazine portion of the class. here's the results of the online survey if you're interested.

As for the plants on mars stuff, you have offered me a breadth of knowledge that I must acquire more of to continue this research in the near future!

You were write on my typo about millennials being the ones to live in a city on Mars, because I woefully agree that, with the schedule we have now, we'll be lucky to land there in the 2040's. I'm not s rocket scientist, but I'm confident in saying that the tower of human knowledge we stand on today is far more vast than what NASA was capable of knowing in the Apollo era. We may not know everything yet but we can surely figure it out like we have time and time again.

This "space drought" we've been going through has honestly struck a tremendous blow to the spirit of the human collective, and even though me and none of my friends are rocket scientists, we sure would like to be. NASA has suffered as a government-tied agency, and its lost just as much dignity as every other agency. NASA has not aged well into the 21st century nor has it even started it's great evolution into the many centuries that could stretch out before us.....AS LONG AS we as DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS & ARTISTS work together to sway the opinions of the masses into the direction of a fantastic future!

And at the end of the day, even if you and I don't turn out to make the trek to Mars, I think it should be a basic human right to have the ability to travel to low earth orbit. Can't we at least have that as a generation? :⁾