NASA aims for a return to moon by 2018
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The United States can return to the moon with human explorers by 2018 at a cost of $104 billion by relying on crew capsules similar to those used in the Apollo program and rocketry inherited from the space shuttle, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Monday.
'Think of this as Apollo on steroids,' the space agency chief said.
NASA's Apollo program ended in December 1972, after a dozen American astronauts explored the lunar terrain during six missions as part of a Cold War rivalry with the former Soviet Union.
View more images at the BBC.
The United States can return to the moon with human explorers by 2018 at a cost of $104 billion by relying on crew capsules similar to those used in the Apollo program and rocketry inherited from the space shuttle, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Monday.'Think of this as Apollo on steroids,' the space agency chief said.
NASA's Apollo program ended in December 1972, after a dozen American astronauts explored the lunar terrain during six missions as part of a Cold War rivalry with the former Soviet Union.
View more images at the BBC.
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