Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:20 pm
#1519886
It seems unlikely, but NASA's Administrator opened up the possibility this week - using the imminent Space Launch System and Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
NASA is eyeing the moon again
Then again, there's getting the money...
But let's keep incendiary politics out of this thread if we can.
NASA is eyeing the moon again
Time wrote:On Wednesday, NASA's acting administrator Robert Lightfoot circulated a memo to employees hinting at the possibility of flying astronauts aboard the space agency's new heavy-lift rocket and crew vehicle as early as 2018. What's more, the mission would not just be to low-Earth orbit, but to lunar orbit — coming during the 50th anniversary year of the Apollo 8 mission, when astronauts first achieved that singular exploratory feat.
Then again, there's getting the money...
But let's keep incendiary politics out of this thread if we can.