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Algol

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From: London

Registered: 2003-04-25

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

Both candidtaes were given 15 questions and asked to keep their response to under 1500 words - the bbc has a synopsisof their answers http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natu … space]here.

Manned Space Exploration.....

Mr Bush appears to have back-pedalled from his "man on Mars" ambition but he still wants man to go back to the Moon. "America will return to the Moon as early as 2015 and no later than 2020 and use it as a foundation for human missions beyond the Moon." He does not mention Mars.

Mr Kerry is sceptical. "There is little to be gained from a space initiative that throws out lofty goals, but fails to support these goals with realistic funding." However, he and John Edwards, he says, will increase funding for a continuation of space exploration.

C M Edwards

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From: Lake Charles LA USA

Registered: 2002-04-29

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

*Sigh.*

Having already decided that I'm not psychologically suited to abstain from the coming US presidential election, I believe I'll ask if they'll allow me to bring dice into the voting booth.

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LtlPhysics

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From: north of the equator

Registered: 2004-02-24

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

You might want to read this before you toss those dice. I'm left with no one worth my vote. Neither of them are credible and it's not just Mars.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.h … tml?id=987

BWhite

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From: Chicago, Illinois

Registered: 2004-06-16

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

You might want to read this before you toss those dice. I'm left with no one worth my vote. Neither of them are credible and it's not just Mars.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.h … tml?id=987

http://http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=987]Keith Cowing:

Editor's Note: For those of you who might be thinking that I am pro-Bush and anti- Kerry - let me set the record straight: if the election of 2004 was only about space policy, I would vote for George Bush without hesitation. I feel that a Kerry Administration would be disastrous for the prospects of a broad, exciting program of true human and robotic space exploration. Indeed, looking at John Kerry's voting record on space, I feel that under John Kerry, America would shy away from the challenge that has been put before it - and that NASA would revert to what it did under the Clinton Administration i.e. go in circles - and go nowhere.

None the less, I plan on voting for John Kerry - but for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with space.

Of course, this also depends on your assessment of the credibility of George Bush.   ???

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Josh Cryer

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

I predicted Bush's "Space Initiative" was a bunch of hot air 6 months before he even talked about it.

edit: btw, Keith Cowing surprises me with what he said at the end there.

Edited By Josh Cryer on 1097904114

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clark

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Registered: 2001-09-20

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

I predicted Bush's "Space Initiative" was a bunch of hot air 6 months before he even talked about it.

He declared a new space policy, and it is taking us to Mars, and it is getting funded. If I recall, I think I made a bet about this prediction with you Josh. 

Keith Cowing dosen't make space a single issue vote. If space is your big thing, you're better off with Bush. If you like the world you live on now, vote Kerry.

Josh Cryer

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Re: Presidential Candidates interviewed by Nature - Manned Space Exploration mentioned.....

Where's the Mars-ship? I don't see it... hmm.

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