GO Mavs wrote:

I agree about that being a fault of Bush. There is no reason we need to send
men to Mars or set up a space station on the Moon.

We have learned there is a ton we can do with cameras, machines, robots, and
magnetic and inferred technology. Going as far as we can into space should
only be funded privately.

Actually, no, there is a dire need for remote sensing of the Earth from
Earth Orbit, and manned space flight for future asteroid deflection
missions, which is most easily simulated and tested in Earth orbit.

Bush clearly got the destinations wrong (Ceres, Phobos and Deimos, and
the asteroids immediately come to mind), the reason for doing it wrong,
(manned space exploration is meaningless, protecting the planet Earth
makes far more sense) and the cost (which is also irrelevant now that
Bush has effectively bankrupted US). Americans can do better than that.

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