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NASA’s goal of returning to the moon should see a major push in early 2019, when the agency awards its first contract for the lunar “Gateway” program.
The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway is NASA’s planned “staging” area intended for studies of the moon and the deep-space environment. Eventually, it will function as a way station for astronauts traveling to and from Mars .
NASA’s first spending for the platform will be for power and propulsion elements early next year, followed by habitation components, Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier said Thursday at the Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They will probably be launched moonward, in that order, starting in 2022.
NASA’s goal of returning to the moon should see a major push in early 2019, when the agency awards its first contract for the lunar “Gateway” program.
The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway is NASA’s planned “staging” area intended for studies of the moon and the deep-space environment. Eventually, it will function as a way station for astronauts traveling to and from Mars .
NASA’s first spending for the platform will be for power and propulsion elements early next year, followed by habitation components, Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier said Thursday at the Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They will probably be launched moonward, in that order, starting in 2022.
originally posted by: ZombieZygote
a reply to: lostbook
All us plebians will get from this is to see a video with slick production made in a Hollywood basement.
originally posted by: gortex
originally posted by: ZombieZygote
a reply to: lostbook
All us plebians will get from this is to see a video with slick production made in a Hollywood basement.
If you choose to believe that then that is all you will get.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: lostbook
Not going to happen unless LFTR nuclear reactors are developed. Thorium is the only abundant fuel on the moon capable of supplying a moon base's energy needs. But LFTR will never happen our lifetime because it would be the death nail for BIG oil. So a moon base is not going to happen in our lifetime.
Of course, the Chinese, Indians, and Japanese are feverishly working on LFTR reactors. Maybe that's the plan.
originally posted by: ZombieZygote
a reply to: gortex
Well first, it is no conspiracy theory. N.A.S.A. openly admits that its photos of space are C.G.I., many made from "ribbons of data" that are later put together in Photoshop, "Because they have to be".
😂😂😂
originally posted by: ZombieZygote
a reply to: gortex
Well first, it is no conspiracy theory. N.A.S.A. openly admits that its photos of space are C.G.I., many made from "ribbons of data" that are later put together in Photoshop, "Because they have to be".
Second, I find it hysterical that most people who are highly critical of governments in general, believe they lie constantly, and are constant purveyors of genocide, simultaneously believe that N.A.S.A., a government entity through and through, is the one agency spending our money honestly and genuinely concerned with helping humanity discover the truth of the cosmos. What a doozy.
LFTR will never happen our lifetime because it would be the death nail for BIG oil. So a moon base is not going to happen in our lifetime.