Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
   
Thursday, Aug 28 2008, 06:56 pm
Jan 15, 2004
Bush unveils his vision for space exploration, which

Bush unveils his vision for space exploration, which unfortunately doesn't include him. Another billion or three to go back and look at the moon. Yup, it's a big rock. Here, you check it out. Yup, it's a big rock. Oh, that's right - a billion or three dollars. It's a really cool big rock. Now give me my money. Then we start a moon base, dump the shuttles and set off for Mars. Didn't one Jerry Brown get laughed out of a presidential race for proposing something eerily similiar? Meanwhile NASA reports that the Spirit lander deployed its chute about a mile too late and bounced on the ground some 28 times before finally stopping. And this is the first successful landing recently. Yeah, we're ready to send humans.

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