Bush and his space plan?

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


When would things start to show that things were seriously moving in
that direction? I mean NASA or whoever is going to be running the
show will maybe have to start from scratch, and maybe dig out the
Saturn V or 1B plans, and start serious initial design plans for the
lander, and the suits, and all the rest of the technology to pull it
off.

One problem I can already see is that a lunar suit will be differnt to
a Martian suit, as the conditions are differn, unless they can design
a suit suitable for both the Moon AND Mars.

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(Christopher) wrote:

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.

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Is it purely coincidental that the plan to go back to the moon,
establish a permanent lunar colony and put a man on Mars by 2015 is
almost exactly what China announced it planned to do back in October?

Cheers
David

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

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:28:42 +1100, in a place far, far away, David
Bromage made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Is it purely coincidental that the plan to go back to the moon,
establish a permanent lunar colony and put a man on Mars by 2015 is
almost exactly what China announced it planned to do back in October?

No, it's not coincidental, but neither is it an effect of China's
cause.