Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Booyah, baby!



I was very pleased (and a little relieved) to find out that there is an international group of fourteen space agencies, including the Canadian Space Agency, that has spent the last six years working on a long term cooperative strategy for space exploration which they have recently made public. The International Space Exploration Coordination Group, or ISECG (not a brilliant acronym, but life goes on) has developed a practical 25-year plan for putting astronauts - including Canadians - on Mars and the Moon.

(Well, mostly practical - I'm still not sure about the part where NASA wants to redirect an asteroid into a near-Earth orbit.)

Part of the plan includes the construction of a space station in orbit around the Moon, intended as a staging point for lunar exploration. Ha - I refer you to my post of November 4, 2007 on the crucial role that space stations could play in interplanetary exploration.  Gosh, guys, all you had to do was ask...
- Sid

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