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 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
