It’s about damn time! 
President Bush is preparing to unveil a new space initiative with a long-range goal of returning humans to the moon and establishing a permanent presence there, NBC News confirmed Thursday. Government officials said there were still final details that the president had yet to sign off on, but that the announcement was likely to come next week.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters traveling with the president Thursday that Bush would have more to say about the space program next week.
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Experts said the goal should be to set up a research base on the moon to test technologies that would be useful on a mission to Mars.“The idea is to go to Mars. And the way you get to Mars is you go to the moon, and you practice three days from home. It’s the equivalent of climbing Mount Rainier and preparing for Mount Everest,” Edward McCurdy, a space-policy expert at American University in Washington, told Reuters.
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