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."

Comments

Democrats is teh craziest peeples

[stratjakt]

Yeah whatever, this bill will die in committee, because it's silly.

But then, would we have gone to the moon without JFKs presidential challenge?

Short of the government ordering a mars mission and moon base, is there enough interest in such things?

Not from me, at least. Fuck mars, what's the big whoopty do about mars? Do they know something about mars that I dont? Is there something on mars worth checking out that they aren't telling me about? Because those rover pictures look mighty boring to me.

Ha!

[Cyno]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Right now I think NASA and us Americans are not smart enough to do these things. We'd probably attempt to do them anyone just to stroke our egos and risk more lives.

Let me put it this way. I thought you all cared about money. Don't you know its not profitable to do these things? So why waste the money? We have enough problems with our economy and society today.

Why can't we just admit that we're no longer the most advanced country on Earth, tuck our tail and do what is right for the people. Because we're not that smart.

Go make more money! That's what we're good at.

Oh god.

[Geekwad]

Oh. Oh. Oh my god.
I need a new pair of pants.