Xref: utzoo sci.space:4805 sci.space.shuttle:586 Path: utzoo!linus!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!masticol From: masticol@clash.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Albert Gore on space budgets (space news from Feb 1 AW&ST) Message-ID: <3655@clash.rutgers.edu> Date: 6 Mar 88 17:04:02 GMT References: <1988Mar2.033211.2762@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 > Albert Gore (Dem. presidential candidate) comes out in favor of an > international manned Mars mission and of "reversing the imbalance" in > funding between DoD's space budget and NASA's. Well, that's a pretty ambiguous statement. If he's listening to reality, he's planning to cut Pentagon space programs to fund NASA, but I seem to remember that he's a supporter of lavish military spending in general and Star Wars in particular. M A X H E A D R O O M F O R P R E S I D E N T (the best computer-generated video image running) -- Steve Masticola (masticol@paul.rutgers.edu) Hill 137 - (201) 932-3766