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DATE: FRIDAY, May 11, 1990                   TAG: 9005110745
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: KINGSVILLE, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

BUSH FAVORS MARS VENTURE

President Bush, heralding a "new age of exploration," said today he believes the United States will send astronauts to Mars in 30 years.

Bush had previously announced he would send a manned mission to Mars, but the commencement speech at the Texas Agricultural and Industrial University marked the first time he gave a time goal.

The president also is commencement speaker Saturday at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

by CNB