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Plan Bush For Outer Space Facing Critical Open Source Review
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2008 Scientists and space policy experts say they will debate whether President George Bush's call for a return to the moon and voyage to Mars is feasible. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent the last four years to design, build and test spacecraft in the program dubbed Constellation, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The program, however, has not caught the public's imagination as did, say, the Apollo program, and with a new president to be elected late this year, some question whether the program needs to be revamped, the Post reported. A Feb. 12-13 conference at Stanford University is to debate the issue, said Louis Friedman, head of the Planetary Society and an early advocate of much of the Bush space plan. "Some of us have real doubts about whether the money will be available for the Bush plan," Friedman told the Post. For an interesting series of opinion and analysis by resident space cynic Jeff Bell please read the following articles. They are listed in the original publishing order and start one year later when President Bush made a speech about space in the post-Columbia period. You can ring the Bell on Jeff's highly critical assessments of the post station era and how we got there in our discussion forums on www.SpaceBlogger.com
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How Green Is My Space
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008The January 21, 2008 issue of Aviation Week And Space Technology has an article on a group of individuals attacking Mike Griffin and the President's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). This group of individuals - that I will call the Stanford Group - claim to want "'green' missions to Planet Earth" to quote page 24 of the above described article. |
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