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NASA Will Start Construction On Lunar Space Station In 2019
tech times ^ | 20 April 2018, 3:36 pm EDT | By Jacob Elyachar Tech Times

Posted on 04/20/2018 7:44:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin

On Thursday, April 19, a representative from NASA announced the space agency's plans during the Space Symposium conference. NASA is now in the process of selecting a contractor to build a spacecraft called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway. The federal agency is likely to concentrate on making elements that would help power the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway next year.

NASA would be following up on building the habitual components of the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway with hopes that it would be able to launch to the moon around 2022. NASA officials also hope that the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway would be fully orbital by 2025.

Once the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway is completed, the gateway will transform into a go-between platform that will bridge the astronauts between the moon and deep space. A team of four astronauts will be allowed to inhabit the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway at a time.

NASA believes that the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway would enable astronauts to accomplish their missions within a 30-day period. Several tasks that the astronauts might tackle include exploring deep space and potential missions which could be either on the moon or within the astronomical object's vicinity.

(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; jacobelyachar; nasa; spacex
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1 posted on 04/20/2018 7:44:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

In before the Mars or bust crowd.


2 posted on 04/20/2018 7:45:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
🚀 How about a manned space launch capability first. Yeah, I know. "Human space launch".
3 posted on 04/20/2018 7:48:44 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BenLurkin

Why? There are no Muslims on the moon.


4 posted on 04/20/2018 7:50:31 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BenLurkin

A twenty trillion dollar debt and surging, 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and this is important? Forgive my skepticism.


5 posted on 04/20/2018 8:00:12 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Whitey’s On the Moon”.....again.


6 posted on 04/20/2018 8:02:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Fungi
My thoughts exactly.

You remember that old Everett Dirkson line, "A billion here, a billion there …"

Time to update that quote for inflation.
 

7 posted on 04/20/2018 8:06:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: rktman

They are coming. The US will have 2 manned systems tested by this time next year and potentially another 4 systems to choose from in about 5 years.


8 posted on 04/20/2018 8:20:57 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m glad they are doing it, but this should have been done around 1978...

Their only moving now because of SpaceX and the fact that the rest of the world it catching up.


9 posted on 04/20/2018 8:30:09 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: crusher2013
I’m glad they are doing it, but this should have been done around 1978...

There was a proposal to strap some boosters onto Skylab, and send it toward the Moon for insertion into lunar orbit.
10 posted on 04/20/2018 8:32:50 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

“habitual components “ LOL!

Good plan though. A weapons platform to control the Moon.


11 posted on 04/20/2018 8:36:38 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Kirkwood

Keeping fingers crossed. Should have been flying within 5 years of Atlantis wheel stop in July 2011.


12 posted on 04/20/2018 9:11:27 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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13 posted on 04/20/2018 9:12:10 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


14 posted on 04/20/2018 9:17:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why settle for Mars when we can explore Uranus ?


15 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To be named “Moonbase Alpha”?? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564/


16 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:27 PM PDT by Drago
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To: dragnet2

bttt


17 posted on 04/20/2018 9:40:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Any space station built has to have hot babes in shiny silver miniskirts with purple hair!


18 posted on 04/20/2018 10:08:20 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: dfwgator

NASSA is hot on whitey’s heels.


19 posted on 04/20/2018 10:22:05 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Zoo + Prison + Circus = Public Shool)
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To: BenLurkin
I am feelings kind of old.

In 1975, I visited NASA in Houston and saw a lowly table in a corner where they had a plastic model of the Space Shuttle perched on the back of an airline jet.

20 posted on 04/20/2018 11:07:39 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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