POLITICAL ACTION ALERT
Chris Carberry, Political Director, The Mars Society
marspolitics@...
617-646-0523

For further information about the Mars Society, visit
our website at: www.marssociety.org

To All:
We must not slow down our efforts to guarantee that
humans to Mars remains on the agenda. We need to rally
our forces to let Congress, and the likely Democratic
nominee, know that there is broad support for the
goals of the new space exploration initiative. We
should accomplish this in the following ways.

1. The Aldridge Commission has provided a public venue
for the public to provide their opinions. We need to
fully utilize this site.
http://www.moontomars.org/notices/contact.asp We need
to let them know that humans to Mars should occur no
later than 2020. We should recommend that the hardware
should be designed for a mission to Mars, and that a
subset of that hardware should used and tested on the
Moon.

2. We need to continue our efforts contacting
Congress. Tell them we support the President's 2005
budget request. If this request fails, then we will
not get an opportunity like this for some time.
Questions concerning this effort should be referred to
our Congressional Outreach Coordinator, Scott DiPietro
(sdipietr@...).

Recent Statement by Robert Zubrin: "The Mars
Exploration budget would be funded at $690.9 million,
an increase of $95.8 million over the current fiscal
year. The vast majority of the funds ($515.6 million)
would be used to develop technology that "supports new
space exploration vision."

"Such technology development programs and flight test
missions are valuable steps that could help open the
way for initiating a human Mars exploration program.
The Mars Society therefore strongly endorses these and
related budget requests that are part of the plan for
the new space exploration initiative, and urges
congress to pass the requested funding for these items
for FY 05."

3. We need to make sure that the likely Democratic
Presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry, knows that
there is broad support for humans to Mars and if he is
elected, he should support not merely continuing, but
substantially improving where the previous
administration left off.

National Headquarters
John Kerry for President, Inc.
519 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-548-6800
202-548-6801 (fax)
http://www.johnkerry.com/contact/

Only together can we help to make sure this plan is
supported, and that it develops in a way that will get
us to Mars by 2020.

Chris Carberry
Political Director, The Mars Society
marspolitics@...
617-646-0523

FROM YOUR STATE POLITICAL COORDINATOR:

In case you believe Senator John Edwards will end up
being the Democratic Presidential Nominee, please ALSO
let him know that there is broad support for humans to
Mars and if elected, he should support, not merely
continuing, but substantially improving where the
previous administration left off. Thanks.

National Campaign Headquarters
Edwards for President
PO Box 300034
Raleigh, NC 27622
919-785-1900
http://www.johnedwards2004.com/contact_us.asp


Gustave Scheerbaum, P.E.
Pennsylvania State Political Coordinator
The Mars Society
gscheerbaum@...


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