Lunachill

NASA has unveiled plans to put a lunar outpost on the moon in the next twenty years. This is the kind of shiot that would make the Planetary Society throwdown like Ibiza in the 90s, except that a manned mission to Mars is their druthers. Ah well, this sprightly bunch of cadet corps will take it.

"NASA officials for the first time provided details of their plans for returning to the Moon, as specified in the Vision for Space Exploration. The emerging consensus among both engineers and scientists, they reported, points to the establishment of a permanent outpost at one of the lunar poles around the year 2024.

The Planetary Society, which had long advocated the construction of a lunar outpost as a "way station" on the road to Mars, welcomed the NASA proposals. Nevertheless, Planetary Society Executive Director Louis Friedman expressed concern that too strong an emphasis on lunar settlement and exploration would divert NASA from the ultimate goal – a human mission to Mars and beyond."