On to Mars
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/04/nasa-likely-to-scrap-plans-to-build-moon-base.html
This makes sense to me. Save the money on building the infrastructure of a Moon base and use it to accelerate the replacement of the shuttle with Orion. Instead of the Moon, fly Orion to a near Earth asteroid (NEO) first. NEO's are much more dangerous than global warming and we need to know more about them.
When the Chinese land on the Moon for a flags and footprint photo-op, the cry will go out saying we already went to the Moon, we need to get to Mars to show them up!
This makes sense to me. Save the money on building the infrastructure of a Moon base and use it to accelerate the replacement of the shuttle with Orion. Instead of the Moon, fly Orion to a near Earth asteroid (NEO) first. NEO's are much more dangerous than global warming and we need to know more about them.
When the Chinese land on the Moon for a flags and footprint photo-op, the cry will go out saying we already went to the Moon, we need to get to Mars to show them up!
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