The President's Space Initiative Speech

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I caught most of it -- and it was fantastic! To hear a president
actually
promoting manned space travel, and laying out a plausible, doable plan to
get our space program back on track, was a breath of fresh air on a bleak
and dreary January day.

Hell, maybe we'll set foot on Mars before I die after all?

I often tell my children how the U.S. once led the world in space travel,
and of how my generation grew up with the excitement and national pride of
putting a man on the moon. Until today, I would also sadly explain to
them
how we had squandered our future, and abandoned the dream...

Well, President Bush has today put us back on track. As pilots (I like to
call what we do "extremely low earth orbit... :-) let's get the phone
calls
and emails rolling to our elected representatives, and tell 'em to get on
board this new initiative!

Let's see: "Congress shall have the power to promote and fund space
travel"...that must be the 247th Amendment; my copy is outdated -- it stops
at the 236th Amendment.