[Cincinatus' Wife]

Actually he said that all of NASA's new projects will have to support manned missions. When it comes to unmanned probes, GWB's paln is for them to actually increase, but they'll have to support manned missions. As to whether that will actually be the case, or if this is more GWB doublespeak (like how he supports a strong dollar), I don't know.

Well, that's much different than your claim he was ditching telescopes and robot explorers, now isn't it?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This should get U.S. aerospace companies working overtime.

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[Moonman62]

Well, that's much different than your claim he was ditching telescopes and robot explorers, now isn't it?

It's different, but it still amounts to putting emphasis on NASA's weakness. We already know that the Hubble is going to be ditched.

I think we should allow NASA to keep developing space telescopes, put new planetary explorers on hold, and start a whole new organization for manned exploration. We could get four times as much done for half the money.