President Bush wants Americans on Mars

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

Bush won't propose sending Americans to Mars (search) anytime soon; rather, he envisions preparing for the mission more than a decade from now, one official said.

In addition to proposing the first trip to the moon since December 1972, the president wants to build a permanent space station there.

Three senior officials 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, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush's announcement would come in the middle of next week.


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Somebody better tell Arnie to get his mining gear ready

Gogogo Bush

Talk is cheap, especially in an election year. I'll believe it when Congress funds it.

ahh those americans think they own everything eh

I'd like to see humans from any country go to Mars ro establish a base on the moon. I'm with RichB, I'll believe it when I see it.

Well, if I were an American, my vote would go to the candidate that 's going to send Bush to Mars right now

Im American and some of the things Bush does is stupid.. but I would choose him over Al Gore.

understatement of the millenium



ps: nothing personal intended, just my view on his presidency

election hype, lol

and in my opinion a bit of a waste of resorces too

Not necessarily, think of all the experiments that could be done in low G environments that can't be done here. I think that it is about time we go back to the moon. As for mars it'd be a great idea, but with the "demoralizing setbacks" occurred there I think it'd be best till we can land probes on the red planet 95% of the time. I know manned ships would be easier to control, and would resolve atleast one of the problems occurred with a probe going to mars.

I'm surprised nobody has talked about the X-prize competition. Here is a link for you guys to get informed http://www.xprize.org/ I'm betting on the scaled composites team winning Enjoy

The only thing i can say to this decission is i hope he will make it

Ou European Mission was verry successfull i remember

I can't stand bush. We should launch him to the sun.

and why can't you stand bush?