John McCain for manned missions to Mars

There's not many details in this story, but apparently at a townhall meeting in Florida, John McCain said that Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" was one of his favorite novels as a kid and that he'd like to see NASA send people to Mars. There's more discussion with a lot of comments at spacepolitics.com. It is good to hear that McCain is at least thinking about this stuff and if he's read some science fiction that could indicate an open mind to science funding. Encouraging stuff!