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Last week, the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science recommended an increase of over $280 million above the requested level for NASA. However, within this budget markup, there is language that would prevent work on programs devoted to humans to Mars. According to a House Appropriations Committee press release, the markup language states that NASA cannot pursue “development or demonstration activity related exclusively to Human Exploration of Mars. NASA has too much on its plate already, and the President is welcome to include adequate funding for the Human Mars Initiative in a budget amendment or subsequent year funding requests." THIS ANTI-MARS LANGUAGE MUST BE REMOVED! Otherwise, the program may turn into MOON ONLY program. We can't let that happen.
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Horrible. Why is there a great resistance to progress? They want to limit progress?
Please, follow the link and contact as many people as you can. Don't let this pass by; it could kill all our efforts.
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I am sort of wondering if the congressmen are thinking that delaying the upfront costs associated with mars that the nasa budget for the moon would stay in check?
I do not think that they understand how little if any is there...
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The House language was removed by the Senate but now Zubrin warns there is a move to cancel the Mars robotic program after MSL in order to concentrate on a Mars Sample return mission around 2020.
Hear Zubrin discuss this and much more on the Space Show - recorded 10 Jul 2007 (audio 87:24 mins)
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