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    NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence


    NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence

    https://theconversation.com/nasa-wants-to-build-a-base-on-the-moon-by-the-2030s-how-and-why-it-plans-to-build-up-to-a-long-term-lunar-presence-279166

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    1. StevenG2757 on

      With luck maybe by 2050 as it will take the US a generation to recover from the dear leader

    2. braunyakka on

      NASA wants to maintain its funding. There’s no way they can establish a moon base in the 2030s. The Artemis missions have already been delayed. The next administration will delay them even further, if they don’t cancel them altogether.

      Then there’s the small problem that NASA don’t have a launch vehicle that can get the modules of a moon base to the moon. That would require something like SpaceX’s Starship, which in and of itself is unlikely to be ready for operation for at least a decade, and probably another decade after that before it can carry that kind of payload to the moon.

      This is pure fantasy.

    3. 12edDawn on

      “We have no reason to believe that these are lunar bears, or even Saturn bears.”

    5. tbodillia on

      That’s never happening. They’ve wanted a lunar base since 1969 and it’s cancelled every time.

    6. Ok-Stomach- on

      There is zero chance. What’s the point of repeating this nonsense? People need to be told real story and realistic expectation

    7. Chessh2036 on

      If NASA still had 4% of the federal budget (like during the Apollo missions) it could happen. But right now NASA has 0.4% of the federal budget, so I highly doubt they ever do it.

      What a shame. Imagine if the NASA budget never got cut. We’d prob have a moon base already.

    8. Ill_Mousse_4240 on

      Don’t know the how – and neither does NASA.

      But the why is *crystal clear*: China is planning one of their own.

      That answer your questions?

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