 To the journey, to the moon itself, history proves that we have never lost by pressing the limits of our frontiers. Last July, President Bush sent new goals for America's space program when he announced the National Space Exploration Initiative. First for the coming decade for the 1990s, space station freedom, our critical next step in all our space endeavors, and next for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars. Inspired by the President's declaration, research into ways of permanently returning to the moon and exploring Mars as accelerating throughout government industry and academia. Inflatable modules protected by lunar soil and linked together to form an expandable base are under study. To explore Mars, engineers are looking into a number of robotic rovers that could serve as pathfinders for manned missions. In this scenario, a Mars spaceship is assembled in orbit using a robot arm. Every launch vehicle's haul up its major components. Once the ship is complete, a shuttle brings in the flight crew, and the journey begins. Upon reaching the planet, a crew carrying lander separates from the mother ship. Guided by information from an earlier rover mission, it is steered to a pre-planned touchdown spot, providing a base for Mars operations. To ensure that no approach to building a lunar base and exploring Mars is available, NASA Administrator Richard Trulie recently launched a nationwide outreach program, seeking new and innovative ideas. The program includes more than 3,200 letters from Trulie to universities and professional societies, an announcement to industry and commerce business daily, a review of federally sponsored research, and a study by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. NASA has even established this toll-free telephone number for anyone who would like to submit an idea. The outreach effort offers this country's best and brightest a chance to help shape the future of man in space, station freedom, a lunar base, and journey to Mars, a comprehensive plan to extend human presence in space.