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  • NASA rules out manned Moon mission in the foreseeable future

    04/07/2013 10:02:24 AM PDT · by redreno · 56 replies
    http://www.theverge.com ^ | April 7, 2013 11:58 am | By Aaron Souppouris
    NASA administrator Charles Bolden has dismissed the idea that the space agency will attempt another manned Moon mission. Speaking with contemporaries, Bolden said "NASA will not take the lead on a human lunar mission... probably in my lifetime." Bolden added that if the next administration reverses NASA's decision it would set back the manned space program in its entirety. He warned that, should we divert resources towards a manned moon mission in the future, we would probably never "see Americans on the Moon, on Mars, near an asteroid, or anywhere" in our lifetimes, explaining that "we cannot continue to change...