rob posted:
> http://www.space.com/news/bush_plan_faq_040115.html#ship
>
> President Bush's Jan. 14 speech painted broad brushstrokes of his plan
> to put humans back on the Moon and send them to Mars. He will depend
> on NASA and a new commission to sketch in the details.
>
> The information below includes the opinions of scientists and space
> analysts inside and outside NASA. Details attributed to the White
> House are drawn from internal position papers obtained by Space News
> and SPACE.com.
[snip]
> There will likely be a gap -- perhaps four years -- when America has
> no space-ready vehicles. Presumably Americans could not then get to
> the station except aboard Russian ships.

I heard one commentator suggest that perhaps the private sector will get
involved here, and the government will simply subcontract private vehicles.
That seems a bit optimistic to me, but not completely impossible.

Reggie Bautista


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