[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Moon base ping.

[b4its2late]

Kool.

[From One - Many]

So you too are running away from ICE and see the moon as your best option?
just kidding.....LOL

[redstates4ever]

Stuff Danny Devito into the booster rocket.

[silverleaf]

Looks like NASA is planning to have an American lunar colony up and running in advance of Earth's visit from "Apophis" - the "no threat" asteroid

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

How come NASA used British English (pressurised, unpressurised)?

[Warlord David]

The stuff that dreams are made of. I only wish this could happen. Great stuff..... Keep on dreaming.

[King Moonracer]

Starting with just their responses, NASA worked with 13 of the world's space agencies to develop a Global Exploration Strategy.

International Space Station, Part Deux.

[N3WBI3]

2020, what a joke.. Yea after at *least* two more administrations and two full senate cycles / 9 house cycles thats going to happen. anything beyond 8 years is nothing but a stall..

[COBOL2Java]

I wonder where the Muslim Prayer Rooms will be?

[Parmenio]

Let's build ours before the Chinese build theirs.

[JamesP81]

A moonbase would be neat, but everone is ignoring the elephant in the room of deep space interstellar exploration.

Propulsion.

If you want see other stars and other worlds, rockets aren't going to cut it. Neither is any other sublight propulsion system. Research should be into determining if lightspeed can be exceeded and, if it can't, if there's a way around that barrier. We will never leave our solar system until that problem is solved.

[Condor51]

In ten years the moon will be full of illegals from Mexico - doing the jobs some lazy American Astronaut refuses to do.

[Old Professer]

Where are they going to launch it from, all of Florida is supposed to be under water by then, isn't it?

[Unmarked Package]

Although not mentioned in this article, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) has an interior volume 2.5 times the volume of the three-man Apollo capsules used for earlier lunar missions.

In the Apollo lunar missions, two astronauts descended to the lunar surface in the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) while one astronaut stayed onboard the Apollo capsule orbiting the moon.

The Orion CEV will carry four astronauts to the moon and all four will descend to the lunar surface while the empty Orion orbits the moon under robotic control. That doubles the man-hours of work and exploration possible on the lunar surface.

Furthermore, the Orion CEV will be designed to support missions up to six months long eventually.

[Centurion2000]

Can someone explain why we're not taking the materials to build a real base out of local materials?

That "base" is a micro or meteorite accident waiting to happen.

When on a vaccuum surface and planning to live there ... DIG IN.

[taxed2death]

...wouldn't it be cheaper if we just rented from the grays?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748778/posts

Above URL is humor about the moon base!

[RightWhale]

to expand Earth's economic sphere

That one is BS. That is to say, Total Bull.

If someone wants the economic sphere expanded he needs to repeal the Treaty and duck.

[trtwox]

I hope they call it Moon Base Alpha