"Our third goal," Bush said, "is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond." He proposed sending robotic probes to the lunar surface by 2008, with a human mission as early as 2015, "with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time."
Bush said lunar exploration could lead to new technologies or the harvesting of raw materials that might be turned into rocket fuel or breathable air.
"With the experience and knowledge gained on the moon," he said, "we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration: human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond."
So yeah, that sounds pretty much like Mars by 2050 to me. Not that, if it actually happens, it will be any of Bush's doing...
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Date: 2005-02-21 09:58 pm (UTC)So yeah, that sounds pretty much like Mars by 2050 to me. Not that, if it actually happens, it will be any of Bush's doing...