▽ Home | The New York Review of Books ●01/03 21:00 Timothy Ferris: Some Like It Hot“George Bush in 1989 made a Kennedyesque proclamation committing the nation to a manned Mars landing by the year 2019, but NASA priced the mission at $450 billion, Congress balked, and the Space Exploration Initiative, as it was called, has been moribund ever since.”