{"id":294,"date":"2005-03-04T23:28:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T23:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/294"},"modified":"2005-03-04T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T23:28:22","slug":"moon-mars-mission-a-poison-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/294","title":{"rendered":"Moon-Mars mission a poison pill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Parks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/WN\/WN05\/wn030405.cfm\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> suggests it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So what\u0092s really behind &#8220;The Vision&#8221;? Why is the administration pushing so hard for a science initiative that scientists scorn, and which won\u0092t take place on Bush\u0092s watch? Ah, but that\u0092s the plan. It will be up to the next administration, stuck with a huge deficit, to decide whether to go ahead with a meaningless but staggeringly expensive program to see if humans can do what robots are already doing. 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It will be up to the next administration, stuck with a huge deficit, to decide whether to go ahead with a meaningless but staggeringly expensive program to see if humans can do what robots are already doing. As one well-informed NASA watcher put it, &#8220;Moon-Mars is a poison pill. 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