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Mars ho! ... hopefully

As you may have already heard, word has leaked that Bush plans to unveil a new human space exploration plan, focusing first on returning to the Moon next decade, and then eventually going to Mars. The plan would also involve scrapping the shuttle fleet and ditching the ISS once we head toward the moon. I say to hell with the ISS. Its whole point was to foster international cooperation, and that didn't pan out anyway. Without any way to give it a full crew complement, it's worse than useless.

There's also this bit about how the plan will be to merge the human and robotic programs at NASA, which also sounds like a good idea to me.

Of course, Bush's dad once had a grand plan to send us to Mars by 2020, and that got killed in the budget process, so we'll see how this goes. My hope is that the recent Chinese launch has something to do with this. But of course, this is an election year.

(P.S.: Just a note that the articles are from UPI, a formerly respectable news organization which is now owned by the Moonies, a cultish group. (No relation or vested interest in the Moon, though. :) ) So take its news with a grain of salt, but I've seen this story in other news sources now, so I think it's legit.)

Update: Here's an AP article on the story.

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