"Is Bush going to hold onto Cheney?" asked Robert Christy, 87, a leading researcher on the Manhattan Project and an emeritus professor of theoretical physics.
"Bush is going to need a scapegoat," Brennen said.
Talk then circled back around to the American space program, and to President Bush's recent announcement of a new round of manned planetary exploration. The professors were skeptical.
The adventurous Brennen said that he would go to Mars. He was asked if he would go if he knew he could not come back.
"I still want to go," he said, the mountaineer. "The highest mountains in the solar system are on Mars."
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