Bush Pushes For Moon, Mars Mission

World | January 15, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
Bush Pushes For Moon, Mars Mission US President George Bush speaks at NASA's headquarters. Bush called for a US return to the moon as early as 2015, saying a lunar base would be a launch pad for a manned Mars mission. Photo by AFP

US President George Bush unveiled plans for a US return to the moon as early as 2015, saying a lunar base would be a launch pad for manned missions to Mars and "across our solar system." Bush sought to preempt concerns about the initiative's potential military implications, explicitly rejecting a return to the costly "space race" between the United States and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Bush's speech came some 30 years after the last US astronaut left the moon, and just under a year since the Columbia space shuttle disaster which forced the suspension of shuttle missions.

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