Bush to announce new missions to moon

Bush to announce new missions to moon

Posted 1/8/2004 8:43 PM

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — President Bush will announce plans
next week to send Americans to Mars and back to the moon and to
establish a long-term human presence on the moon, senior
administration officials said Thursday night.
Bush doesn't plan to send Americans to Mars anytime soon; rather, he
envisions preparing for the mission more than a decade from now, one
official said.

The president also wants to build a permanent space station on the
moon.

The initiatives are part of a broad, new commitment to manned space
flight, three officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

They said Bush wants to aggressively reinvigorate the space program,
which has been demoralized by a series of setbacks, including the
space shuttle disaster last February that killed seven astronauts.

The officials said Bush's announcement would come in the middle of
next week.

Bush has been expected to announce a major space initiative, and some
thought he do so at the 100th-anniversary celebration of the Wright
brother's first flight last month in North Carolina.

Instead, he only pledged the United States would continue to lead the
world in aviation.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has called for an expansion
of the U.S. space program, including a return to the moon.

McClellan spoke with reporters accompanying Bush on a trip to
Tennessee and Florida.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ush-moon_x.htm

In article ,
Rusty Barton wrote:

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — President Bush will announce plans
next week to send Americans to Mars and back to the moon and to
establish a long-term human presence on the moon, senior
administration officials said Thursday night.

Which "senior administration officials" are these, exactly? The same
ones who said he'd make an announcement at Kitty Hawk, and then a week
later denied that any such announcement was ever under consideration?

The initiatives are part of a broad, new commitment to manned space
flight, three officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Oh. Yes, *those* officials.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ? President Bush will announce plans
next week to send Americans to Mars and back to the moon and to
establish a long-term human presence on the moon, senior
administration officials said Thursday night.

This probably won't show up until the State of the Union address, and
it'll be a paragraph of glittering generalities. Something like what
Bush's dad said about getting back to the Moon by 2019 and Mars 10
years later, if memory serves.

Applause, followed by amnesia.

Manned spaceflight at NASA will remain the Space Shuttle (as something
to fly to the ISS) and the ISS (as something for the Space Shuttle to
fly to) for a *long* time to come.

But hey - maybe it'll affect the Florida swing vote?

(TVDad Jim) writes:

This probably won't show up until the State of the Union address, and
it'll be a paragraph of glittering generalities. Something like what
Bush's dad said about getting back to the Moon by 2019 and Mars 10
years later, if memory serves.

Applause, followed by amnesia.

Not if Bush does what he proposes and pays for the mission by slashing
all non-manned space budgets. This would be a real change in
direction for NASA.

Manned spaceflight at NASA will remain the Space Shuttle (as something
to fly to the ISS) and the ISS (as something for the Space Shuttle to
fly to) for a *long* time to come.

After Columbia, the shuttle program is living on borrowed time. That
borrowed time is the time it takes to complete the assembly of ISS.
After that, the shuttle is done.

Jeff
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jeff findley ) wrote:
: (TVDad Jim) writes:
:
: This probably won't show up until the State of the Union address, and
: it'll be a paragraph of glittering generalities. Something like what
: Bush's dad said about getting back to the Moon by 2019 and Mars 10
: years later, if memory serves.
:
: Applause, followed by amnesia.

: Not if Bush does what he proposes and pays for the mission by slashing
: all non-manned space budgets. This would be a real change in
: direction for NASA.

Why not slash the DOD budget and do all of what NASA dos now plus the
return to the moon mission? Reallocate the best DOD engineers into NASA to
assist with the effort? Why should unmanned space exploration suffer
because of this effort?

: Manned spaceflight at NASA will remain the Space Shuttle (as something
: to fly to the ISS) and the ISS (as something for the Space Shuttle to
: fly to) for a *long* time to come.

: After Columbia, the shuttle program is living on borrowed time. That
: borrowed time is the time it takes to complete the assembly of ISS.
: After that, the shuttle is done.

Done? A need for a truck to space to bring payloads into space is never
going to be needed?

Eric

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"Eric Chomko" wrote in message
...
Why not slash the DOD budget and do all of what NASA dos now plus the
return to the moon mission?

Why not leave the DOD budget alone and slash the Medicare budget? How about
the Education budget? How about whatever Federal funds used to support the
Internet (of which there probably isn't much remaining). Considering the
condition of most base housing and the serious problems with the VA
hospitals, there's little left to cut in the DOD budget. Your assumption,
which you haven't supported with hard verifiable data is that the job the
DOD does isn't needed.

Reallocate the best DOD engineers into NASA to
assist with the effort?

Of which there are very few. Most "DOD Engineers" are contractor employees.
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(Eric Chomko) writes:

jeff findley ) wrote:
: After Columbia, the shuttle program is living on borrowed time. That
: borrowed time is the time it takes to complete the assembly of ISS.
: After that, the shuttle is done.

Done? A need for a truck to space to bring payloads into space is never
going to be needed?

Even lowly ELV's can do that. Try again.

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TVDad Jim ) wrote:
: PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ? President Bush will announce plans
: next week to send Americans to Mars and back to the moon and to
: establish a long-term human presence on the moon, senior
: administration officials said Thursday night.

: This probably won't show up until the State of the Union address, and
: it'll be a paragraph of glittering generalities. Something like what
: Bush's dad said about getting back to the Moon by 2019 and Mars 10
: years later, if memory serves.

: Applause, followed by amnesia.

: Manned spaceflight at NASA will remain the Space Shuttle (as something
: to fly to the ISS) and the ISS (as something for the Space Shuttle to
: fly to) for a *long* time to come.

: But hey - maybe it'll affect the Florida swing vote?


And make the Texans around Houston feel good. They should at least get
NASA $$$.

Eric

On 9 Jan 2004 07:48:08 -0800, (TVDad Jim) wrote:

.... Something like what
Bush's dad said about getting back to the Moon by 2019 and Mars 10
years later, if memory serves.

Applause, followed by amnesia.


Clinton's canceling the program five minutes after he got into office
didn't help matters either.


Manned spaceflight at NASA will remain the Space Shuttle (as something
to fly to the ISS) and the ISS (as something for the Space Shuttle to
fly to) for a *long* time to come.


Long time = "until the orbital space plane gets online"?

In article ,
Rusty Barton wrote:

Bush to announce new missions to moon

Posted 1/8/2004 8:43 PM

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — President Bush will announce plans
next week to send Americans to Mars and back to the moon and to
establish a long-term human presence on the moon, senior
administration officials said Thursday night.
Bush doesn't plan to send Americans to Mars anytime soon; rather, he
envisions preparing for the mission more than a decade from now, one
official said.

The president also wants to build a permanent space station on the
moon.

The initiatives are part of a broad, new commitment to manned space
flight, three officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

They said Bush wants to aggressively reinvigorate the space program,
which has been demoralized by a series of setbacks, including the
space shuttle disaster last February that killed seven astronauts.

The officials said Bush's announcement would come in the middle of
next week.

Bush has been expected to announce a major space initiative, and some
thought he do so at the 100th-anniversary celebration of the Wright
brother's first flight last month in North Carolina.

Instead, he only pledged the United States would continue to lead the
world in aviation.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has called for an expansion
of the U.S. space program, including a return to the moon.

McClellan spoke with reporters accompanying Bush on a trip to
Tennessee and Florida.

Judging from the fine print, I'm not sure everyone will be happy:

"Sources said Bush will direct NASA to scale back or scrap
all existing programs that do not support the new effort."
--http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040107-123930-1532r

I note the word "all".

Would that be including unmanned programs, both mooted and/or inflight
(eg JIMO, Cassini etc), as well as manned ones?

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