Does the new NASA strategy proposal looking at the Moon or Mars for manned mission?
UPDATE 1-NASA strategy proposal aims for Mars over moon Tue Sep 8, 2009 4:54pm EDT * “Generation Mars” proposal is 30-year development plan * Also sees commercial companies providing launch services * Panel says no meaningful exploration without resources (Updates with details of review panel report) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 8 (Reuters) – A NASA strategy proposal shifts the U.S. human space program away from returning to the moon in favor of a stepping-stone approach aimed at reaching Mars, including using commercial space launch services, according to a document seen by Reuters. The proposal is not yet official policy but is the U.S. space agency’s response to one of five options contained in review ordered by President Barack Obama of NASA’s post-shuttle program that plans to put humans on the moon again by 2020. A summary of the Human Space Flight Review Committee report, released by the White House on Tuesday, warned however that there could be no meaningful future
* “Generation Mars” proposal is 30-year development plan * Also sees commercial companies providing launch services * Panel says no meaningful exploration without resources (Updates with details of review panel report) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 8 (Reuters) – A NASA strategy proposal shifts the U.S. human space program away from returning to the moon in favor of a stepping-stone approach aimed at reaching Mars, including using commercial space launch services, according to a document seen by Reuters. The proposal is not yet official policy but is the U.S. space agency’s response to one of five options contained in review ordered by President Barack Obama of NASA’s post-shuttle program that plans to put humans on the moon again by 2020. A summary of the Human Space Flight Review Committee report, released by the White House on Tuesday, warned however that there could be no meaningful future human space exploration program without more money. “The U.S. human spaceflight pr
UPDATE 1-NASA strategy proposal aims for Mars over moon Tue Sep 8, 2009 4:54pm EDT * “Generation Mars” proposal is 30-year development plan * Also sees commercial companies providing launch services * Panel says no meaningful exploration without resources (Updates with details of review panel report) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 8 (Reuters) – A NASA strategy proposal shifts the U.S. human space program away from returning to the moon in favor of a stepping-stone approach aimed at reaching Mars, including using commercial space launch services, according to a document seen by Reuters. The proposal is not yet official policy but is the U.S. space agency’s response to one of five options contained in review ordered by President Barack Obama of NASA’s post-shuttle program that plans to put humans on the moon again by 2020. A summary of the Human Space Flight Review Committee report, released by the White House on Tuesday, warned however that there could be no meaningful future
A NASA strategy proposal shifts the U.S. human space program away from returning to the moon in favor of a stepping-stone approach aimed at reaching Mars, including using commercial space launch services, according to a document seen by Reuters. The proposal is not yet official policy but is the U.S. space agency’s response to one of five options contained in review ordered by President Barack Obama of NASA’s post-shuttle program that plans to put humans on the moon again by 2020.
