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Offline kevindavis007

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The space agency has a new pit stop on the way to Mars


After months of hinting, Vice President Mike Pence finally made it clear today that the Trump administration will direct NASA to land humans on the Moon and establish a more permanent presence on the lunar surface. It's a return to the vision of President George W. Bush, which was deferred when President Obama reoriented the space agency toward a journey to Mars.


Pence made the administration’s intentions known in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, as well as a speech he gave during the inaugural meeting of the National Space Council — a newly resurrected executive group aimed at guiding the US space agenda. “We will return NASA astronauts to the Moon — not only to leave behind footprints and flags, but to build the foundation, we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond,” he said to a crowd of representatives and press at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.


It’s a move that many within the space community have suspected for a while. Pence suggested a return to the Moon during a speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July. And many members of the National Space Council and Trump’s NASA transition team have been advocates of lunar missions. However it still marks a fundamental change for the space agency, which has been focused on sending humans to Mars since 2010 — without any plans for landing people on the Moon.


For now, it’s unknown how this destination shift will affect NASA’s long-term plans. For the last decade, NASA has been developing a new rocket and spacecraft — the Space Launch System and Orion — to take astronauts into deep space and onto Mars. The current plan is to use these vehicles to build a space station in the vicinity of the Moon, known as the Deep Space Gateway, where astronauts can train and then depart for missions to Mars. But it’s possible those vehicles could be used to go to the Moon’s surface instead. Versions of the SLS rocket and Orion capsule were originally conceived as part of the Constellation program — an effort under Bush to take astronauts to the Moon that was canceled by Obama.


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Re: NASA will put humans on the Moon again, Mike Pence tells space council
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2017, 11:42:30 pm »
NASA will put humans on the Moon again, Mike Pence tells space council

Why?

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Re: NASA will put humans on the Moon again, Mike Pence tells space council
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2017, 06:45:45 am »
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I had hoped we would have a permanent moon base by now.

Ironically,  one of NASA's last remaining Apollo era scientists recently retired [my brother.]




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Re: NASA will put humans on the Moon again, Mike Pence tells space council
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