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Subcommittee Stops Human Mars Mission Spending

Posted by Zonk on from the who-wants-to-go-there-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week's House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science FY08 budget markup would prevent work on programs devoted to human missions to Mars. According to a House Appropriations Committee press release, the markup language states that NASA cannot pursue "development or demonstration activity related exclusively to Human Exploration of Mars. NASA has too much on its plate already, and the President is welcome to include adequate funding for the Human Mars Initiative in a budget amendment or subsequent year funding requests." The Mars Society is already leading an effort to get the language removed."

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  1. PDF question by cadience · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's not that I don't like PDFs, it's just that I hate loading Adobe into a Firefox tab.

    Is it possible to indicate that the link is to a PDF similar to how links in the comments explicitly display link sources for "safety".

  2. Spending by Normal+Dan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We spend so much on the military and war. Why not give more to the pursute of science? If NASA was funded like our military, we would not have to worry about other countries attacking us, because we would all be living on other planets.

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  3. Re:Slashdot users... by buswolley · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You are my foe.

    Oh, and Colonize MARS! Mars First! MARTIAN FRONTIER!

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