Increase NASA's Manned Mars Mission Funding by 50% to Facilitate a More Thorough and Prompt Execution of Exploration

Earth's biosphere has reached a critical stage of environmental damage. Only by actualizing humanities interplanetary expansion will the survival of our species become certain. The recent discovery of liquid water on the surface of Mars should serve as the catalyst that jump starts America's space program. Now, more than ever has the reality of human expansion into space become a viable reality. Martian water exists not only as polar ice, but liquid ground water. The possibility of efficiently sustaining human populations on the Red Planet is the challenge of the 21st century. This petition calls for an agency wide expansion of NASA's funding by 50% the current amount. Exerting resources to actualize human space exploration will cement America's place as a champion of tomorrow's future.