NASA Planning Moon Launch for 2018
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA announced plans today to send astronauts back to the moon by the year 2018.
The mission, which was described as "Apollo on steroids," will use a combination of elements of both the Shuttle and Apollo programs, "plus whatever else we can find laying around."
The mission is projected to cost $104 billion over the next decade, or over $250 billion in not-make-believe-NASA-budget money.
NASA's chief administrator Michael Griffin defended the cost of the program, however.
"In the grand scheme of things, $100 billion isn't really that much money," said Griffin.
"We've spent close to $100 billion on a missile defense system that doesn't work, and double that on a disastrous war in Iraq," he continued. "Even if we utterly fail, this program still looks pretty good."
Griffin was unable to offer any estimates of the costs of getting the astronauts back to earth.
The mission, which was described as "Apollo on steroids," will use a combination of elements of both the Shuttle and Apollo programs, "plus whatever else we can find laying around."
The mission is projected to cost $104 billion over the next decade, or over $250 billion in not-make-believe-NASA-budget money.
NASA's chief administrator Michael Griffin defended the cost of the program, however.
"In the grand scheme of things, $100 billion isn't really that much money," said Griffin.
"We've spent close to $100 billion on a missile defense system that doesn't work, and double that on a disastrous war in Iraq," he continued. "Even if we utterly fail, this program still looks pretty good."
Griffin was unable to offer any estimates of the costs of getting the astronauts back to earth.
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