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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: corbe on May 21, 2019, 05:29:49 pm
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ONE GIANT LEAK Secret Nasa plans for lunar base and 37 rocket launches to the Moon ‘revealed by leak online’
Nasa is determined to return man to the Moon in 2024
By Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
21st May 2019, 10:17 am
NASA'S official plans to build a permanent base on the Moon have seemingly leaked online, revealing how and when astronauts will return to the rocky world for the first time in 50 years.
Internal documents appear to show how Nasa wants to launch 37 rockets to the Moon within the next decade, with at least five of these carrying astronauts.
Key points in Nasa's Moon base plans
Starting with an unmanned rover in 2023, the space agency is expected to land people on the Moon in 2024.
Nasa will then fire manned missions to Earth's neighbour every year between 2024 and 2028, according to the documents, which were obtained by Arstechnica.
The decade-long program culminates with a permanent lunar base, which Nasa wants to start building in 2028.
The plans began circulating among Nasa staff last week, according to Arstechnica's Eric Berger.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9119244/secret-nasa-plan-moon-outpost-rocket-launches/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9119244/secret-nasa-plan-moon-outpost-rocket-launches/)
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Is this like "Apollo 22?" The one where we retrieved an alien spacecraft buried on the far side?