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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] The USAF Rescue ship [i]Lewis and Clark[/i] was also the ship captained by Morpheus to go and rescue the survivors of the experimental [i]Event Horizon[/i], which had just concluded a 13-year flight to the dimension of EVIL!!! *ahem* Okay, I watched Bush's speech today. In a nutshell, he has outlined the following concrete goals: 2008 - Unmanned lunar satellites and landers to pave the way for manned expeditions 2010 - Completion of US commitments to the ISS, and retirement of the space shuttle 2014 - First flight of what he has termed a "Crew Exploration Vehicle", or CEV. This vehicle (not likely a planiform ship, but rather a capsule-based system) will have the ability to take astronauts to destinations in Earth orbit (ISS) and to the moon (Apollo-style, I'd guess). 2015 - CEV returns people to the moon 2020 - Permenant manned lunar presence. This base will develop and test technologies for the inevitable missions to Mars, as well as develop science and commercial applications of the Moon for us down here. To start, Bush has asked NASA to reallocate about $11B of the $86B given to it over the next five years; he has also marked an additional $1B per year for this duration. NASA is to get back to him in four months with a detailed plan to accomplish all this stuff; it will be overseen by a former USAF general. Thoughts? Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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