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Maybe. It's just possible, however, that there's a lot less to the Bush plan than meets the eye--or matches the hype. The President's proposal does not call for any new footprints on the moon until 2015 at the earliest--43 years after the last ones were...
Having rung the Mars bell, however, the current Bush Administration may find it's not possible to unring it. Even if it's true that the President's announcement was nothing more than a bit of election-year candy, it's getting some very serious attention from some very smart...
All the fresh talk about a manned mission to Mars comes during what has been a heady few weeks for the long-struggling NASA. Earlier in the month, the Stardust spacecraft, launched in 1999, made an improbable flyby of Comet Wild-2, drawing in a breath of primordial dust to...
But it was the Bush speech that trumped all those triumphs, and that in itself said something. Human beings in a spaceship beat unmanned metal every time, no matter if the metal is up and running and the humans won't fly for years. Even overseas, the speech made news...
While it's easy for a President to talk about going to Mars in the run-up to an election, it's terribly, terribly hard to get there. Before astronauts can even think of suiting up and taking off, a host of problems have to be solved.