• Economic Trajectories: Dividing Up the Funds

President Bush has offered rhetoric but very little rationale for his expensive and far-reaching plan to send an American back to the moon, build a permanent lunar base, and eventually send a manned mission to Mars. It has been framed as a way for NASA to regain some prestige after the Columbia tragedy, or for the U.S. to demonstrate its continued leadership in space exploration....
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• Meet a Martian or the Universe

President Bush recently rolled out a twenty-year vision for space exploration that involves completing the International Space Station (ISS), establishing a research base on the moon, and planning for an eventual human mission to Mars. Many in the space science community were immediately excited by this vision...
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