Bush Calls for New Moon Landing by 2015Growing up, I was obsessed by the mission into space and the potential of global cooperation (I was a heady kid - no big surprise there).
WASHINGTON Jan. 14 — President Bush proposed on Wednesday to develop a new spacecraft to carry Americans back to the moon by 2015, and to establish a long-term base there as an eventual springboard to Mars and beyond.
I'm going to be watching this speech very carefully, because the phrasing of this story ("carry Americans back to the moon") worries me. I'm going to look for Bush to frame this as another unilateral project, which would (a) crush the spirit of a cooperative global space program, (b) preclude getting any outside financial help with this, and (c) be friggin' typical.
If he does, well...check back here later.
