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On the recordFebruary 2, 2016
If we somehow all came together, said okay, we're going to put a percent of the entire federal budget towards getting us to Mars and that gets you $200, $300 billion over the course of the next 17 years, can we do this?
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Ed Perlmutter
Democratic · Colorado

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Perlmutter discusses funding for a Mars mission with bipartisan support.

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