I was reading last night quite late and with much interest the state of affairs with respect to the Exploration of Mars.  Those little Rovers are still going did you know that?  Then I went back in time a bit courtesy of Nasa and JPL, what ever happened to Voyager I and Voyager II?

Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object, traveling at a distance from the sun of about 15.5 billion kilometers (9.7 billion miles). Voyager 2 is about 12.5 billion kilometers (7.8 billion miles) from the sun. Originally designed as a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, the Voyager tours were extended because of their successful achievements and a rare planetary alignment. The two-planet mission eventually became a four-planet grand tour. After completing that extended mission, the two spacecraft began the task of exploring the outer heliosphere and have now both left the Solar System entirely and now silently hurtle through interstellar space.

This got me thinking to the time and place that was the 1960's when all this quest for knowledge and supremacy really got started and the immortal words of JFK still ring in my ears:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

-John F. Kennedy - September 12, 1962

Maybe the next President will say something memorable and profound to make official the quest for Mankind on Mars.

Whenever you think something in Real Estate is too hard or beyond your abilities remember in the Summer of 1969 humankind did what was thought not to be possible a short time earlier, walk on the Moon and return to Earth. At a time before Laptops and the Internet, Cell phones, or e-mail. 

Heck you've got it easy Brothers and Sisters!