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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:58:09 -0800, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote:

****... now I might lose $5 and a pack of 20 stamps.

Donny's Dilemma wrote in message
news
WASHINGTON - President Bush (search) wants to send Americans
back to
the moon - and may leave a permanent presence there - in a bold
new
vision for space exploration, administration officials said
yesterday

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104800,00.html


Oz1...of the 3 twins.


By that time, I'll need Christmas stamps again, so I'll be depending
on them. :-)

And, everyone should buy some aerospace stock.

two wheels


More about the the motive [for going to the Moon]:
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/new...224058,00.html

excerpt:
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'You've got the Chinese saying they're interested - we don't want
them to beat us to the moon.

'We want to be there to develop the sweet spots,' Republican Senator
Sam Brownback said on Thursday.

A close adviser to Nasa administrator Sean O'Keefe who asked not to
be identified was quoted by USA Today as saying the Chinese launch
earlier this year and their interest in a manned lunar mission had
'changed the equation' for the US space agency.

Some analysts say a Chinese-American space rivalry may prove healthy
and lead to other benefits such as new drug products, but CNN said
other White House hawks saw Beijing's space programme more as a
warning.

They say China could use a space base to test new rockets or other
technology that may prove threatening to the United States at some
later date.

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