NASA Mulling Joint Lunar Missions With Commercial Enterprises

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 4, 2013 @03:56PM from the fly-me-to-the-moon dept.

MarkWhittington writes "According to a July 3, 2013 story in SpaceRef, NASA has issued a Request for Information concerning various commercial endeavors to create robotic lunar landers. NASA appears to be interested in assisting in those projects with a view of using the resulting vehicles for its own exploration plans. Officially, thanks to a mandate by President Obama, NASA is not planning its own crewed mission to the moon. However the space agency seems to be interested in supporting, in some way, a commercially run lunar base. Joint robotic lunar landings might be seen as the start of such an effort."

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Re:Public-Private Partnerships by Cenan · 2013-07-04 20:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

There is no technical difference between public, public-private or private - only the implementation detail of how the money winds up in campaign donors' pockets.

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