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So what would it take to move the Bush proposal--or any other moon-and-Mars proposal--out of the blueprint stage and into space? For one thing, it would take a real commitment. Remember the national aerospace plane? No? Neither does anyone else, but this was one of the...
The difference between the NASA of that golden age and the NASA of today is that the old agency had one principal goal--the moon--and remained monomaniacally focused on it through 11 years, six Congresses and three presidential administrations. The current plan will take more than twice as long...
By even the sunniest scenarios, six years is probably way too fast. No matter how long it takes, however, if human beings are going to make--and fulfill--a commitment to walk on the Red Planet, our biggest shift will have to be a philosophical one. Both NASA and the...
Usually when a President starts to talk about the year 2020, it means he's going to deliver a dreary speech calling for the reform of entitlements like Medicare and Social Security, programs scheduled to go broke about then. But George W. Bush is trying to make the politics of...
Bush and his political adviser Karl Rove, who helped craft the plan, believe in the power of big ideas. And they know that if the big idea is an optimistic one--and what is a trip to Mars if not optimism in action?--so much the better, especially in a...