Base on the Moon by 2020

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Submission + - Base on the Moon by 2020 (spaceflightnow.com)

Submitted by thomas.kane on Thursday January 26, 2012 @08:28AM

thomas.kane writes: Newt Gingrich announced yesterday, while visiting Florida's Space Coast, a visionary plan for the future of space travel. He suggested a combination of the current private incentives and a government funded section, developing a moon base, commercial near earth orbit, and continuous propulsion systems to better reach Mars.

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