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NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« on: May 10, 2017, 04:37:50 pm »
 A group of astronauts may spend a year in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s as part of NASA's plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, agency officials said today (May 9).

Greg Williams, NASA's deputy associate administrator for policy and plans in the agency's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, spoke today at the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington D.C. and provided a detailed look at the first two phases of NASA's current plan to send humans to Mars.

The agency recently announced that its Mars plan now includes building a "deep-space gateway" around the moon to serve as a testing ground for operations and technology that will be required for those Red Planet missions, Williams said. Eventually, the lunar presence would also serve as a launching point for the spacecraft that will carry humans to Mars, he added. The yearlong crewed mission around the moon in 2027 is one of the major future milestones of the current plan. [Red Planet or Bust: 5 Crewed Mars Mission Ideas]

More: http://www.space.com/36781-nasa-yearlong-crew-moon-mission-ahead-of-mars.html

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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2017, 04:48:51 pm »
The chinese will have a base on the moon before we get back there.
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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2017, 11:24:29 pm »
I think it will end up being a lot longer than a year on the moon but that's good.

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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2017, 11:55:06 pm »
I think it will end up being a lot longer than a year on the moon but that's good.


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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2017, 12:02:15 am »

I agree.

We need permanence on the moon anyway. It needs to become our space coast.

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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2017, 12:08:56 am »
We need permanence on the moon anyway. It needs to become our space coast.


I figure it is a start..
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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2017, 05:44:04 am »

I agree.


Me too. Maybe we can even have an amusement park there in the year 3000 like they had in Futureama.  (J/k)
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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2017, 07:18:03 pm »
Can we boost the space station into a lunar orbit?

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Re: NASA's Mars Plan May Include Yearlong Mission to the Moon
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2017, 07:37:15 pm »
Can we boost the space station into a lunar orbit?

I'd rather link up some of the Bigelow modules for a space station in lunar orbit. The ISS is aging and its only a matter of time before it becomes crippled beyond repair or worse.