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The second day of Charles Gibson's road trip to Houston took the ABC anchor to NASA headquarters. There he reported on the space agency's plan to "go back to the future" when Space Shuttle flights are discontinued in 18 months. Relying on NASA's computer-generated animation to depict an imaginary adventure, Gibsone told us that astronauts will land once more on the moon in 2020, where they will build a base from which to launch trips to Mars "10 to 15 years later." Gibson made the entire enterprise sound highly speculative--"the rockets have not even been tested yet"--and he did not even venture a pricetag. "With ten years between retiring the Shuttle and getting to the moon again, will the public continue to support space exploration? And will the Congress, which will have to appropriate billions to make it all happen?"
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