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Title: Giant leap II: Bush to announce plan for Mars, Moon missions

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[ETERNAL WARMING]

Mr. Bush...how about you announce a plan to create jobs for Americans, to help us earn enough to actually pay our bills? How about you announce a plan to rescue Social Security? How about you take on the DOMESTIC problems like the hospitals that are growing broke because they can't turn away your illegal alien buddies? Sheesh! He spends money like there's no tomorrow. Perhaps there isn't.

[aquawrench]

HUGE MISTAKE

WHY?!?

Astronomy, cosmogrophy etc. is my first love, Bush is 2nd only to Reagan. A manned mission to mars is wrong, ill-advised, and silly.

[chimera]

Some good stuff here. If it's done right it could open up a lot of opportunities for exploration and eventual colonization. By 'done right', I mean these programs should actually go somewhere after their initial missions are completed. I don't want them to end up like Apollo did, where we essentially went there, planted the flag, and then came home for over 30 years.

[biblewonk]

Definitely time to pull my support from W if he does this and doesn't give me a marriage amendment.

[Jotmo]

To all the people who think that going to the Moon/Mars is a waste of time, I'd like you to answer a question.

Do you think we shouldn't have gone to the moon the first time?

If you could go back and make it (a manned mission) not happen, would you do it?

If it's a big waste now, then it was a big waste then.

What say you?

[RightWhale]

At the time, the estimated cost was between $400 billion and $500 billion, a price tag too high for Congress, which scuttled the proposal.

That was disgusting, and that was when we knew old NASA was about done. New NASA is already being born.

[Hank Rearden]

Is this guy ever going to stop spending huge clumps of our money (taken by force) to buy more votes?

[A2J]

President Bush will outline a plan for returning humans to the moon as preparation for exploring deeper space destinations, including Mars, administration sources said late Thursday.

Why not send the 8 - 10 million illegal immigrants to the moon and to Mars where they can resettle it and work instead of giving them amnesty?

[hosepipe]

Opening the conversation of going back to the Moon and on to Mars is a brillent political diversion worthy of a democrat.. or even a communist.. Goebels would be jealous..