Innovations in space exploration--let's have a thread for it!
NASA recently funded support for private development of vessels to service the International Space Station. Today's news: the agency is now doing something similar to service moon bases.
X Prize Cup to Host NASA's Lunar Lander Challenge
by Leonard David
2006.9.22
NASA's hope is that the prize will spur the design and fabrication of quick turnaround vertical take-off, vertical landing vehicles. That ability can help cultivate the commercial launch procurement market - not only for future operations on the Moon but here on Earth too.
Here's a link to the page for NASA's
Constellation Program
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