No offense, but….
Horseshit! The ‘back to the moon’ pledge was just utter Bushwa.
You want the real facts? Bush is proposing an extra billion dollars for NASA over the next five years. That’s two hundred million dollars a year.
Hell, NASA has to shop around on ebay for computer parts. Its laying off staff. It’s satelllites are held together with duct tape.
Two hundred million wouldn’t pay for a new shuttle. It wouldn’t even begin to counter two decades of cutbacks.
Bush, as Governor of Texas, never once even bothered to visit the NASA centers in Houston and Galveston.
Frankly, Bush’s proposal simply shows off his scientific illiteracy and his deep rooted contempt for the public.
He might as well have announced a punitive expedition to the land of Oz to rescue Dorothy.