Moon Stuck
Space leaders work to replace lunar base with manned asteroid missions
PUBLISHED IN AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY
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Posted: January 18, 2008

BY CRAIG COVAULT

Some of the most influential leaders of the space community are quietly working to offer the next U.S. president an alternative to President Bush's "vision for space exploration"--one that would delete a lunar base and move instead toward manned missions to asteroids along with a renewed emphasis on Earth environmental spacecraft.

Top U.S. planetary scientists, several astronauts and former NASA division directors will meet privately at Stanford University on Feb. 12-13 to define these sweeping changes to the NASA/Bush administration Vision for Space Exploration (VSE).

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