Posted on 12/02/2017 4:54:41 AM PST by Elderberry
A new edition of an international space exploration planning document to be released early next year will offer an updated plan for human missions to the moon and Mars, emphasizing the role that NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway could play.
In January, NASA and 14 international space agencies plan to publish their common goals for exploration, including an extended presence in low Earth orbit, a cislunar habitat, moon missions and eventual excursions to Mars, in an updated Global Exploration Roadmap being drafted by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG).
Since NASA’s first flight of its heavy-lift Space Launch System with an Orion capsule is scheduled for as soon as late 2019, it’s time to decide “what we are going to do with these vehicles,” Kathy Laurini, NASA senior adviser for exploration and space operations, said during a Global Exploration Roadmap community workshop at the NASA Ames Research Center Nov. 29. “We’ve been engaged with our international partners on how we’ll use these to explore together.”
ISECG, a voluntary organization whose members share non-binding plans and objectives, published its last Global Exploration Roadmap in 2013. ISECG members will use the new Roadmap to show domestic policymakers and funding agencies how specific programs will contribute to global endeavors, said Laurini, who also serves as ISECG chair.
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“We’ve been engaged with our international partners on how we’ll use these to explore together.”
Capt Kirk, tell them how it’s done by STAR FLEET Directive.
So Trump is ramping up space exploration? US excellence in the space program was always a symbol of American greatness. bammy stopped the space program because it was a symbol of American greatness, and the media NEVER mentioned it, ever, not a f*cking word, so they could protect his America-hating a$$, and not a word of complaint from the “scientists.”
The media is not going to give Trump credit for this.
The NASA program costs a ton of money. The Space X Falcon heavy is about to be tested. Next if the BFR is produced and reusable then the SLS will be irrelevant.
A space program directed by private companies doing things with a measurable payback would be amazing. Satellites are a big deal, a money maker, and a driver of further hardware. Imagine what it would be like if the same happens with lunar and asteroid exploration and exploitation.
I think it would be a mistake to sink too much money in Mars explorations. There’s just too many problems to solve that could be solved with simple moon missions and moon habitats and the space infrastructure for resupply
When you have to eat an elephant, you do it one bite at a time.
NASA continues to decline with no leadership and a bloated over-authoritative management. Same people running NASA now as during Obama. They are hoping to wait out Trump.
The Space X Falcon heavy is about to be tested.
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In January, NASA and 14 international space agencies plan to publish their common goals for exploration, including an extended presence in low Earth orbit, a cislunar habitat, moon missions and eventual excursions to Mars......such that 30 or 40 years from now, all that will have been done is the construction of another space station that cost perhaps $2 trillion (not a joke, not hyperbole) and not have returned to the Moon in any meaningful way, or gone to Mars. IOW, US taxpayers subsidize our enemies, Russia and China, as well as our "allies" in the EU, and get nothing out of it.
Manned spaceflight is an incredible waste of money.
NASA would keep me from being sued, hopefully...
Is that like a “cisgender,” but for the moon?
Space Shuttle was a boondoggle, was supposed to be less expensive to launch. Turned out to be the opposite, not to mention the dead astronauts. The ISS has been a total waste, has accomplished nothing scientifically.
Unmanned spaceflight has accomplished much at reasonable cost. Mannned spaceflight is a waste that we cannot afford with a 20 trillion dollar national debt.
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