T+28: The Future of NASA and the Moon
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NASA released an RFI for small scientific payloads bound for the lunar surface, meant to “address strategic knowledge gaps” associated with human missions to the Moon. I talk about how this could indicate a shift of the SLS/Orion roadmap, and how NASA may be focusing on lunar surface missions in order to build more political capital for the program of record.
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- NASA signals interest in extending commercial spaceflight to the Moon | Ars Technica
- Lunar CATALYST | NASA
- Eric Berger on Twitter
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- Moon Village: humans and robots together on the Moon / DG's news and views / About Us / ESA
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