H.R. 3057: To the Asteroids, Moon and Mars

apsmith writes "Democrats have just introduced the Space Exploration Act of 2003 to the U.S. House of Representatives; the author is Nick Lampson of Texas, with 26 co-sponsors. The bill sets a vision and goals for the future of NASA, beyond the Low Earth Orbit of the Space Station and Shuttle, outlining a series of incremental steps for human spaceflight. These include development of reusable spacecraft for carrying people around in the Earth-Moon vicinity, including to the nearby Lagrange points; sending people to an Earth-crossing asteroid; establishing a lunar base, and sending people to Mars with a base on a Martian moon by 2024."

Comments

Got a volunteer for ya'

[DigitalNinja7]

Please, send Senator Orin Hatch on the Earth-crossing asteroid mission. The guy is a space-cadet already!

Terrorists on the Moon

[Anonymous Coward]

What they need to do is say there are terrorists with WMD massing on the moon. Then NASA can get $87 million too.

phobos base?

[lone_marauder]

Sounds good to me, just don't do any transdimensional experiments up there.