Now I realise why he’s so keen on going to other planets:
“The extended human presence on the Moon will enable astronauts to develop new technologies and harness the Moon’s abundant resources to allow manned exploration of more challenging environments.”
There’s oil in them thar craters!
» President Bush Announces New Vision for Space Exploration Program
Petafloptimism 
Or at least, $ for Halliburton:
NASA Ames Center looks at problem of drilling on Mars:
Dr. Geoffrey Briggs, director, Center for Mars Exploration at the NASA Ames Center, told Meet Alaska that NASA is looking at ways to drill on Mars to look for water and the life it might contain.
Briggs said NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars…
Halliburton and Baker-Hughes are working on some very advanced systems, Briggs said, some so advanced they arent willing to talk much about them.
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarch/010228-49.html
This found at Billmon’s Whiskey Bar – read it all and the comments:
http://billmon.org/archives/000964.html
…and will fund the effort by abandoning the International Space Station. Just when you thought unilaterism couldn’t go any further…
…and will fund the effort by abandoning the International Space Station. Just when you thought unilateralism couldn’t go any further…
What Bush doesn’t realise is that even though the moon does look like the desert, it doesn’t mean there is oil there!
Doh!
t.