http://planetary.org/html/society/space_plane.html

"The Planetary Society today endorsed the call by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Democrat Ralph Hall (D-TX) to defer the decision to start development of the Orbital Space Plane until a NASA goal for human space exploration is defined.

The Planetary Society has repeatedly urged that human exploration beyond Earth orbit requires a goal, and that the destination for humans should be the surface of Mars."

This is from the largest space advocacy group for those of you who like to pretend the Mars goal represents a small minority. A recent MSNBC shows a nearly equal split between the Moon and Mars with those two each out polling the next closest by almost 4 to 1 and 7 to 1 combined.

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