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NASA lays out $28 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon in 2024:
NASA officials released a nearly five-year, $28 billion plan Monday to return astronauts to the surface of the moon before the end of 2024, but the agency's administrator said the "aggressive" timeline set by the Trump administration last year hinges on Congress approving $3.2 billion in the next few months to kick-start development of new human-rated lunar landers.
The plan unveiled Monday contained few new details not previously disclosed by NASA. It assumes crews will launch on NASA's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, fly to the moon's vicinity on an Orion capsule, then transfer into a commercially-developed lunar lander to ferry the astronauts to and from the lunar surface.
NASA released a new overview document [(pdf)] Monday describing the agency's approach to landing astronauts on the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. The program, named Artemis, encompasses the SLS, Orion, Human Landing Systems, and the Gateway, a human-tended platform in lunar orbit that will eventually serve as a staging point for missions to the moon.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Username on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:12PM (2 children)
What is the mission that requires landing on the moon? To give Trump a going away present?
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:22PM
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf [nasa.gov]
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday September 24 2020, @03:45PM
The mission that requires a moon landing is to claim and hold territory on the moon. Especially the highest priced real estate.
That conjecture wood also explain the recent NASA competition to collect lunar samples, but not have to return them to Earth. Simply deliver them to NASA on the moon. (which strengthens the territorial claim)
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