H.R. 3057: To the Asteroids, Moon and Mars

apsmith writes "Democrats have just introduced the Space Exploration Act of 2003 to the U.S. House of Representatives; the author is Nick Lampson of Texas, with 26 co-sponsors. The bill sets a vision and goals for the future of NASA, beyond the Low Earth Orbit of the Space Station and Shuttle, outlining a series of incremental steps for human spaceflight. These include development of reusable spacecraft for carrying people around in the Earth-Moon vicinity, including to the nearby Lagrange points; sending people to an Earth-crossing asteroid; establishing a lunar base, and sending people to Mars with a base on a Martian moon by 2024."

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yeah, you almost found the point

[boarder]

Ummm, basketball and football aren't the only sports available for men to play. At my university, we couldn't have a men's gymnastics team or volleyball team. And I went to a rather large public university (40,000 students). At smaller colleges with less funding, sports such as wrestling, soccer, and swimming get the axe. In my highschool, we had 200 guys sign a petition to get a men's vball team going, but the administration said they couldn't.

Are these ...

[Richard Allen]

the same democrats who claim we are wasting too much money on Iraq and not spending enough money on helping our citizens?
I don't know about you, but I sure could go for a good asteroid tour to help boast the economy.

Re:Got a volunteer for ya'

[Clock Nova]

You're both marvelously deluded. The whole point is not what France's motives were. Those, too, are beside the point. Just replace the word "France" with just about any other nation, and the statement is still true. Despite what you may think of Saddam, our government had to lie to its own people to get the internal backing to invade.

Of course, I realize that the average Republican stooge cares not that no WMD have been found, or that none of the promises they made to us before the war about how quick and decisive it would be, have come true. All they care about is the fact the "Bush kicked some Arab ass!" Woo hoo. This whole thing has turned into a revenge tragedy.