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Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

image77 writes "NASA's new administrator, Michael Griffin, and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday the space agency will have the necessary funding to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars. Delay states "We will provide the funding necessary to get us where we want to go.""

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  1. Better uses for my tax dollars by JasonEngel · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Let space exploration be a privately funded endeavor. At a time of unjust war, when far more important issues require money (education, anyone?), this strikes me as a horribly frivolous waste of my tax dollars.

    Spend my tax dollars getting our soldiers OUT of Iraq. Spend my tax dollars educating our children. Spend my tax dollars to make basic health care affordable. Spend my tax dollars protecting the environment. Spend my tax dollars on anything that would improve the day-to-day lives of millions of Americans.

    Going to Mars would be cool. Just don't use my money to get there.