Posted on 01/08/2004 9:05:47 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
...On July 20, 1989, President George H. W. Bush marked the 20th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a speech at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington in which he called for a permanent American presence on the moon and, ultimately, a mission to Mars.... ---------------------- The year of 1989 brought a change of administrations, and a change of attitudes toward space. On the twentieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing - July 20, 1989 - President George Bush stood in front of the Smithsonian next to the Apollo 11 crew. He announced his thirty-year plan for human exploration of space: a space station by 1999; a Moon landing by 2009; a Mars landing by 2019. The program was to be called SEI, the Space Exploration Initiative. http://mars.caltech.edu/history.html
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