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Red ink planet.(Up Front)(space spending, mission to Mars)(Brief Article)

American Prospect, The,  March, 2006  

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> What happened to Mars? Out rolled the question off one wit's tongue during the buildup to the 2006 State of the Union Address. Somewhat surprisingly, the mission to Mars, which was famously announced prior to the 2004 SOTU but omitted from the speech itself, is actually right on track. The Bush administration's fiscal year 2007 budget request commits us to "having astronauts return to the moon by the end of the next decade followed by future human missions to Mars and beyond." As it did in last year's budget, this commitment comes at the ...

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