Moon Exploration Is Not Dead, NASA Official Says

Space.com ^ | 09/30/10 | Tarig Malik

[KevinDavis]

NASA's new space exploration program may be skewed toward sending astronauts to an asteroid and onto Mars, but a return to Earth's moon is not completely lost, NASA's deputy chief told reporters today (Sept. 30).

NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver, the space agency's second-in-command, said the moon has a role to play in the new space exploration plan set by President Obama and approved by Congress this week. NASA, she added, won't turn its back on Earth's nearest neighbor.

[the invisib1e hand]

mr obama, your wife dressed you in high-water pants.

[Talisker]

Moon Exploration Is Not Dead, NASA Official Says

It's dead, NASA.

[jmcenanly]

Before she became NASA’s Deputy Administrator, Ms. Garver worked as the executive administrator for the National Space Society (http://www.nss.org/ ) . During her tenure, which ran from the groups founding in 1986 to 1998, they helped to keep the space Station program going.

[colorado tanker]

We should have already had a base on the Moon. It could have been our 51st state!

Or 58th.

[SunkenCiv]

NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver, the space agency's second-in-command, said the moon has a role to play

It does right now -- I've just dropped trou' at the mention of her name.

[King Moonracer]

Allah was imprisoned on the moon... To set him free they'll need to soak it in infidel blood.

They have their blood libel, I have mine.