Mars Attacks!

Get ready, America: We're heading to Mars.

During his Thursday speech at the Kennedy Space Center, President Barack Obama took a swing at critics who have questioned his space plans, according to the Associated Press. Not only is Obama "100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future," he said, but he also expects to see Americans land on Mars in his lifetime.

Chant with me now: USA! USA!

By 2025, the president declared, the country will have a new spacecraft engineered to bring astronauts into deep space. Then, in the mid-2030s, American astronauts should be orbiting Mars.

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