Posted by : Ray Plumlee in (Space Travel Talk)
Have We Lost Our Vision For Space Travel To The Moon, Mars and Beyond?
Tagged Under : Ares, Constellation, ISS, JFK, Mars, Moon, NASA, Orion, Rocketship, Space Station
This Picture of a Classic Rocketship of the 1950s helped give me a dream of manned space travel.
If you haven’t heard already NASA’s mission is no longer manned space travel. With the decision to cancel the Constellation program there is no longer a plan for manned space flight for the United States.
NASA’s Project Constellation, was a plan to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System.
Canceling NASA’s Moon-bound Constellation program is expected to cost the U.S. space agency $2.5 billion in contract termination liability and other closeout costs over the next two years. Add to that the $9 billion already spent developing the Orion crew vehicle and Ares rockets the total cost for a program that will never be completed is over $11.5 billion. All for nothing.
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