John Glenn blasts Bush space plan

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By Broward Liston
Updated: 8:41 p.m. ET March  04, 2004

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - U.S. space pioneer John Glenn said Thursday that President Bush’s space exploration plan “pulls the rug out from under our scientists” and might waste too much money to ever put astronauts on Mars.

Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio and the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, said NASA should not abandon research on the International Space Station and questioned the advisability of using the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.

His stinging rebuke of the Bush plan came in testimony before the presidential commission charged with developing a strategy for building a permanent base on the moon, then sending astronauts on to Mars. The commission met at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Glenn’s home state of Ohio.

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[BootinUp]

1. Yeah! I was hopin this story would be picked up

Bush is such a fuckin loser, now John Glenn is kickin his ass.

:nuke:

[yardwork]

2. Senator Glenn is BELOVED in Ohio by Dems and independents and even

many Republicans.

[coloradodem2005]

3. John Glenn is the Shit.

If anybody knows enough about space to voice an opinion it is him. He is great.

[Sugarbleus]

4. Thank You John Glenn!! eom