- (AFP) - More than three-fifths of Americans oppose President
George W. Bush's proposal to return to the moon and eventually put a human
on Mars, according to a poll.
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- His plan to spend billions of dollars on manned missions
to the moon and eventually to Mars drew opposition from 61 percent of the
1,003 adults surveyed January 14-15.
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- Bush called late Wednesday for a new space vessel capable
of traveling to the moon as early as 2015. He would give the US space agency
NASA an additional billion dollars over five years, in addition to its
annual budget of 15.4 billion dollars.
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- Even among members of Bush's own Republican party, 48
percent opposed the plan against the 42 percent who supported it.
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- About nine percent of the people questioned in the Time/CNN
poll said they would spend billions of dollars on space exploration. Some
40 percent they would rather improve education, 27 percent would balance
the federal budget, and 13 percent would clean up the environment. Only
seven percent said they would enlarge the military.
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- The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1
percentage points.
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