Mars in Republican Debate

On Nov. 28th CNN hosted a youtube debate. During this debate one person asked the question via youtube that asked "Is there a candidate amongst you willing to take a pledge on behalf of the Mars Society of sending an American to the surface of Mars by 2020? If not, what is your vision for human space exploration?". This question was answered by two of the presidential hopefully. Huckabee stated that he would keep expanding the space program while Tom Tancredo stated that he would cut funding for the Mars program. He said we could not afford to go to Mars. I thought this was very interesting because our whole class is on Mars exploration and if a new president does not like the idea of Mars, it could all be for not. So it will be intesresting to see what the new President in 2008 does to our NASA programs.