The White House has announced that President Bush plans a major speech next week saying that NASA will be sending Americans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars. This file image is from the July 20, 1969 moon walk of Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong. (UPI Photo via NASA)
The White House has announced that President Bush plans a major speech next week saying that NASA will be sending Americans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars. This file image is from the July 20, 1969 moon walk of Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. and Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong and shows the Earth rising above the Moon's horizon from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. .(UPI Photo via NASA)
President George W. Bush is said to be on the verge of announcing a new space program to send American Astronauts back to the moon. In this photo from 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin stands facing the U.S. flag on the Moon. (UPI Photo/NASA)
Crowds gather at the Capitol Plaza on Nixon's Inauguration Day
A large crowd gathered in the Capitol Plaza to attend the swearing in of Richard M. Nixon as the 37th President of the United States on Inauguration Day, and listen to his inaugural address after the swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 1969. (UPI Photo/Files)
Demonstrators give President Nixon the middle finger on Inauguration Day
Demonstrators heckle as President Nixon’s car reaches the District Building during the Inaugural Parade on January 20, 1969. At the window of the car facing the jeering crowd is Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois. The Nixons are seated behind him, their faced turned away from the middle finger waving demonstrators. See-through sign at left calling Nixon "#1 War Criminal" is shown from the back. (UPI Photo/Files)
Crowds gather at the Capitol Plaza on Nixon's Inauguration Day
A large crowd gathered in the Capitol Plaza to attend the swearing in of Richard M. Nixon as the 37th President of the United States on Inauguration Day, and listen to his inaugural address after the swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 1969. (UPI Photo/Files)
President Nixon sworn in as 37th President of the USA
Richard M. Nixon takes the oath of office as the 37th President of the United States of America on January 20, 1969 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. The officiator was U.S. Supreme Court Judge Earl Warren. Looking on is Mrs. Pat Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and William P. Rogers, Secretary of State designate. (UPI Photo/Files)
President Nixon sworn in as 37th President of the USA
Richard M. Nixon takes the oath of office with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren presiding as the 37th President of the United States of America on January 20, 1969 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Between them in the background is Spirow T. Anew, the new Vice President, and at lef tis outgoing President Lyndon B. Johnson. (UPI Photo/Files)
Outgoing President Johnson and family leaves Washington after inauguration of Nixon
Following the inauguration of Richard Nixon as the 37th President of the United States, the outgoing presidential family of the Johnsons departed from Andrews Air Force base on January 20, 1969 for the LBJ Ranch in Texas. LTR: Luci Nugent Lady Bird Lynda Robb Lyndon B. Johnson and his grandson, Lyn. (UPI Photo/Files) (Note: the silhouetting is part of the original photo)
President Nixon sworn in as 37th President of the USA
Richard M. Nixon takes the oath of office as the 37th President of the United States of America on January 20, 1969 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. The officiator was U.S. Supreme Court Judge Earl Warren. Looking on is Mrs. Pat Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and William P. Rogers, Secretary of State designate. (UPI Photo/Files)
Spiro T. Agnew sworn in as Vice-President of the USA
Spiro T. Agnew takes his oath as Vice President of the United States of America at the Capitol on January 20, 1969. Administering the oath is Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-Ill, chairman of the Joint Inaugural Committee. Looking on at left is President-elect Richard M. Nixon. In the Center is J. Mark Trice, Secretary of the Senate Minority. (UPI Photo/Files)
President Nixon sworn in as 37th President of the USA
Richard M. Nixon and his wife Pat, after becoming the 37th President and First Lady of the United States of America, leave the platform for the swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol in Washington on january 20, 1969, and wave triumphantly to the crowds. In front of them are Vice President and Mrs. Spirow T. Agnew. (UPI Photo/Files)
New York and Washington become one on Nixon's Inauguration Day
The Capitol Dome is framed by the Statue of Liberty and the United Nations Building as the New York float waits to participate in the Inaugural Day Parade on January 20, 1969, the day that Richard M. Nixon became 37th President of the United States. (UPI Photo/Files)
President and wife Lady Bird Johnson greet the next president of the USA, Richard and wife Pat Nixon.
Richard Nixon, the next President of the United States, and his wife, Pat, are welcomed at the White House on January 20, 1969, by outgoing President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird. (UPI Photo/Files)
Security guards protecting the Nixon limousine duck stones and beer cans tossed at the motorcade as it proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House on January 20, 1969, the day Nixon was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States. One of the agents jumped onto the back of the limo. (UPI Photo/Files)
Early comers gather at the Capitol Plaza on Nixon's Inauguration Day
An early couple waits patiently while reading the newspaper before a large crowd gathered in the Capitol Plaza to attend the swearing in of Richard M. Nixon as the 37th President of the United States on Inauguration Day, and listen to his inaugural address after the swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 1969. (UPI Photo/Files)
VIETNAMESE TRANING CAMP. NUI DAT: S. Vietnam. Vietnamese infantry trainees march in camp 8/19/1969 located in rolling hills 40 miles southeast of Saigon. The trainees at the Nui Dat camp and nine others like it in South Vietnam will bolster the Army of the Republic of Vietnam to a projected total of 850,000 men by the end of 1969. (UPI Photo)
VIETNAMESE TRAINING CAMP. NUI DAT, Vietnam: Trainees of the expanding Army of the Republic of Vietnam listen to instructor 8/19/1969 as they await their turn to use the rifle range. These infantry trainees are residents of a cam in Nui Dat, one of ten training centers scattered around the country. (UPI Photo)
SURVIVING AT BEN HET, VIETNAM: A US Special Forces soldier grimaces fiercely as he pulls a dead North Vietnamese soldier from a hole outside the Special Forces Outpost at Ben Het, June 21, 1969. The Americans broke out of the camp in an attempt to penetrate the surrounding enemy troops, killing eleven. The camp has been under siege recently. (UPI Photo)
Pentagon reveal shocking photo of Viet Cong atrocities
VIET CONG ATROCITIES. Washington: "These (pictures) should be made available to the press, just as photos of My Lai were made available to the world press," said Rep. Richard H. Ichord, Democrat-MO. This is one photo which Pentagon officials showed at the Capitol December 8, 1969. While a group of children, in March of 1966, were watching some visitors to the hamlet of Dan Tri V, Go Vap District of Gia Dinh Province, a small band of Viet Cong attacked. A rifle grenade killed these four boys and wounded others, according to accompanying Pentagon information. (UPI Photo)
VIETNAMESE TRAINING CAMP. Nui Dat, South Vietnam. A trainee at the Nui Dat camp practices the manner in which he will use the butt end of his M-16 rifle in hand to hand combat 8/19/1969. The training includes no field operations because, in the words of the American advisor, "it would look bad for a company to go AWOL." The trainees are ex-draft dodgers who need to be guarded closely. (UPI Photo)