When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.
BUZZ ALDRIN, Scholastic interview, Nov. 17, 1998
"NASA's share of the US federal budget peaked at 4.4 per cent in 1966, but a decade later it was less than 1 per cent, where it has remained ever since," making this one of the situations which paved the way for a visionary, privately-funded NGO on its way to Mars.
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