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Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip

Posted by michael on from the one-way-ticket dept.

Geno Z Heinlein writes "Reuters reports that astronaut John Glenn testified March 4 before the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond, saying that Bush's plan 'pulls the rug out from under our scientists' and that 'It just seems to me the direct-to-Mars [route] is the way to go.' Referring to the Moon as an 'enormously complex' Cape Canaveral, Glenn said that NASA might spend all the money getting to the Moon and never get to Mars."

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  1. Politics by Chris+Y+Taylor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And in other news, Democratic Senators find any excuse to criticise the sitting Republican President during an election year.

  2. Re:USAF and the Moon by torpor · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    All I'm saying, is that 9/11 wasn't 'hardship'. Americans live a very pampered life, compared to some. GWBush shouldn't be getting away with such blatant use of 9/11 to get what he, and his New Holy Order, want to do with US military resources, in the name of 'damage to the US, and hardship on Americans'.

    It is a ploy unworthy of respect.

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