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Shooter

Rear Admiral
I don't like the man, but I've been waiting this for a long time now:

BUSH SPACE INITIATIVE

•Spend $12 billion on new space exploration plan over next five years. $1bn will be new money, the rest reallocated from existing NASA programs.
•Retire shuttle program by 2010
•Develop new manned exploration vehicle
•Launch manned mission to moon between 2015 and 2020
•Build permanent lunar base as "stepping stone" for more ambitious missions
•Complete commitments to International Space Station by 2010
Source: White House

(copy/pasted from cnn.com)

Do you think that there will be some sort of cooperation between the world space agencies or this will be an "all-american" project ? And please, no Beagle 2 jokes.
 
All-American.

It's because China's rapidly going to perform all the "major steps" (i.e., man on the moon, something not done in a while...), and going at a tremendous clip. And who knows what China might do once they become a major space power.

Nothing like a little competition to spur science.
 
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