NASA Unveils Strategy for Return to the Moon

mknewman writes to tell us that NASA recently announced plans to build a permanent base on the moon by 2024. The (still tentative) plans call for building the base on one of the moon's poles, which constantly receive light from the sun and have less temperature fluctuation. This base will start small in 2020 and grow over time with the hopes of eventually supporting 180-day stays and providing a jumping-off point to Mars."

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Cost for war $350 billion USD

[Anonymous Coward]

With $350 billion dollars wasted on destroying and killing other people on Earth, what's a few ten billion more for researching the Moon? The US defence budget just surpassed the combined military budgets for the rest of the planet put together. Imagine what all that money would accomplish if it were put to constructive science instead of destruction and killing others.