NASA's lunar base plan: permanent base by 2024

topic posted Mon, December 4, 2006 - 9:50 PM by  Alan
www.world-science.net/otherne...base.htm

NASA an­nounced plans today to build a per­ma­nent base on the moon by 2024.

“With such an out­post, NASA can learn to use the moon’s nat­u­ral re­sources to live off the land, make prepa­ra­tions for a jour­ney to Mars, con­duct a wide range of sci­en­tif­ic in­ves­ti­ga­tions and en­cour­age in­ter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pa­tion,” the agen­cy said in a state­ment.
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Alan
SF Bay Area
  • Re: NASA's lunar base plan: permanent base by 2024

    Wed, December 6, 2006 - 7:19 AM
    If this lunar base project were being done with the same speed as the Apollo program, it would be up and running no later than 2015. But more likely, this moon base won't happen until much later than 2024 or maybe not at all. If the space program were as popular as American Idol, then we'd have a lot of progress in this area.