Affirming his commitment to

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“Affirming his commitment to manned space exploration, President Bush said Friday that his new budget will significantly boost funding for Space Station Freedom and other programs intended to help send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars and beyond.”

Los Angeles Times
January 25th, 1992

As it happens, I’m an inveterate supporter of manned space exploration. But I couldn’t miss the feeling of deja vu.

And where’s the money come from on this one? I thought we were halving the deficit in five years.

And who gets the Martian reconstruction contracts?

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