Bush is proposing a billion dollar increase for NASA, each year for the next 5 years. 5+4+3+2+1 -- a fifteen billion dollar budget raise for the moon and then mars. My understanding is that the Apollo program, in modern values cost in excess of 100 billion dollars. Each space shuttle launch costs 1/2 billion dollars. Do the math yourself and ask if this is a 15 billion dollar personal Bush Election support bill. I don't begrudge NASA the 15 billion, especially with their new found economy of science and the help of other countries. I just think that Bush is lying about something America can't afford, to impress voters he doesn't respect, for a position he doesn't deserve.
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