From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 05:18:12 PST
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White House denies new space policy imminent
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Posted: Fri, Dec 5 12:31 AM ET (0531 GMT)
White House officials said Thursday that there no immediate
plans for the President to announce a new national space
policy, which could include human missions to the Moon.
Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters during a
press conference Thursday that "there are no plans for any
policy announcements in the immediate future." Recent
reports, including a front-page article in Thursday's New
York Post, suggested that Bush would announce the new
policy, whose cornerstone would be human missions to the
Moon perhaps by the end of the next decade, as soon as
December 17, during a speech at Kitty Hawk to mark the 100th
anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight. McClellan
declined to even confirm that Bush would event speak at
Kitty Hawk. McClellan did say that an interagency space
policy review is ongoing, but offered no timetable of when
the review might end and when a new policy might be
released.
Related Links:
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Houston Chronicle article:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/space/2271238
SPACE.com article:
http://space.com/news/moon_bush_031204.html
New York Post article:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/12584.htm
UPI article:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031204-104042-8972r
AP article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=1&u=/ap/20031204/ap_on_sc/moon_or_mars
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