Acceptance Slow for Bush's Space Plan [View All]

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Source: Washington Post

With Some Scientists Skeptical, NASA Turns to Advertising Firm to Generate Appeal

Four years after President Bush called for Americans to return to the moon and then voyage on to Mars, NASA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design, build and test the spacecraft that would make it possible.

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Moreover, some top space exploration advocates, policy experts and scientists, including some who initially supported the program, are questioning whether it can ever achieve its goals at a price taxpayers will accept. The doubters are sufficiently worried that they have organized a conference for Feb. 12-13 at Stanford University to debate the issue.

"With a new administration coming in soon, we have to seriously think about whether Constellation is doing what it should," said Louis Friedman, head of the Planetary Society. He was an active early supporter of much of the Bush plan but is now helping to organize the Stanford meeting.

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NASA, meanwhile, is mounting a vigorous defense of the steps it has taken to turn Bush's vision into a new generation of rockets and crew capsules, a lunar lander and ultimately a settlement on the moon.

Washington Post

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103258.html

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Steeple slow in acceptance after spending hundred millions and you need more money?

Manufacture the steeple’s consent by rolling out advertising campaigns. This admin has spent more money and relied heavily on PR to support their endeavors.

Regarding the moon settlement, several years ago, I saw real estate advertisement for property on the moon. The offering to sell property on the moon wasn’t as far fetch as you may think it is. Many years ago, questions were raised about a HUD budget line item that allocated money for apartments on Mars.