NASA’s new administrator and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, vow the space agency will have the necessary funding to implement President Bush’s vision to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars.
While I support the development of technologies, I don’t currently have the foresight to see that Mars should be a priority. Instead, my biased perception believes more funding should be given to NIH.
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