NASA's Moon Vision: Action Plan or High-Tech Hallucination?

Posted on: Sep. 21st, 2005 || Source: space.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

NASA's Moon Vision: Action Plan or High-Tech Hallucination?

NASA’s rollout of a strategy to return people to the Moon and eventually plant footprints on the distant sands of Mars is sparking both praise and criticism.

Michael Griffin, NASA’s administrator, publicly unveiled yesterday the space agency’s $104 billion mastermind of a mission that puts astronauts back on the moon by 2018, setting the stage for future expeditionary trips to the red planet.

New space travel hardware – a Crew Exploration Vehicle and the requisite boosters for tossing people and cargo beyond low Earth orbit – is part of the must-have agenda.

But analogous to one of Newton’s laws of physics that drives rocketry -- but in a 21st century context -- for every action plan there is always an equal but opposite reaction.

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