Lets just say for arguments sake he gets re-elected, and Congress
gives him the trillion dollar green light for the Moon, Mars program.

Let's not, since no such amount has even been discussed apart from a few
trashy "journalists" and the readers who are duped by them. It's pure
fantasy. I'd rather discuss reality.


Well if Congress appropriates one trillion dollars for fiscal 2005, I doubt
there is enough time to build the vehicles and train the astronauts for a
manned landing to occur at the end of that year. One trillion dollars is a
stalking horse for the anti-space lobby to generate opposition for the program.
Its a bogus amount, George Bush never said it would cost this much, he never
proposed increasing NASA's budget to 1 trillion dollars a year from 14 billion.
This amount was cooked up by Mars opponents who deliberately have not looked at
Zubrins book and pretend to be ignorant of it. "Who's Zubrin? Never heard of
him."

Tom