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Expert Warns NASA Can't Afford Mars Plan 1 hour, 25 minutes ago By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer An aerospace executive warned a presidential commission Wednesday that NASA (news - web sites) does not have enough money ? or bright young stars ? to achieve President Bush (news - web sites)'s goal of returning astronauts to the moon and flying from there to Mars. "It would be a grave mistake to undertake a major new space objective on the cheap. To do so, in my opinion, would be an invitation to disaster," said Norman Augustine, retired chairman of Lockheed Martin...

Space Expert to U.S.: Don't Do Mars on the Cheap 1 hour, 35 minutes agoBy Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites)'s ambitious plan to send Americans back to the moon and eventually to Mars must not be undertaken on the cheap, a space policy expert told a White House-appointed panel on Wednesday. Norman Augustine, a businessman and engineer who headed an earlier examination of NASA (news - web sites) after the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster, warned members of Bush's new space exploration commission not to set firm schedule targets or budget limits for the project....