Via the NYT: NASA Says It Will Set Up Polar Moon Camp
NASA announced Monday it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon’s poles, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts return to the moon.It is a sweeping departure from the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and represents a new phase of space exploration after space shuttles are retired in 2010.
After consulting more than 1,000 experts from 14 different countries, NASA decided on what deputy NASA chief Shana Dale called a ”fundamental lunar approach” that is sharply different from its previous moon missions in nearly everything but the shape of the ship going there.
Intriguing. I wonder if it will actually happen.
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December 5th, 2006 at 8:13 am
sounds cool.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:53 am
I think are more important things for our government to be doing. NASA is simply wasteful spending.
December 5th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Moondoggle Alpha (or “Pork: 1999″)
I have absolutely nothing to say about NASA’s plan to build a base on the Moon by 2024 that I haven’t already sa…