March 5, 2004

Sending Astronauts to Mars: a Quaint, Costly, Needless Proposal

By ROBERT L. PARK

Within hours of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew, President George W. Bush reassured America that "our journey into space will go on." Now, a year later, the president has outlined his bold new plan of space exploration: "We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own." Invoking the Lewis and Clark expedition, the president called for a base on the moon and an

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