Back to the Moon – Better The Second Time Around?

A Closer Look at NASA’s New Exploration Architecture, SpaceRef

“A group of NASA officials briefed a panel at the National Academy of Sciences last week on Administrator Mike Griffin’s revamped exploration plans. The panel being briefed was part of the Academy’s Space Studies Board – one organized to review NASA’s plans for the International Space Station. Some aspects of the presentations, such as the broad outlines of how NASA wants to go back to the moon, were straightforward. Other presentations – on the International Space Station and what it is now to be used for – the ones that were most relevant to the committee’s purview – were far less cogent.”