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NASA’s Vision of Future Space Travel
For forty years, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have explored the universe to help better understand terrestrial planets. 21st century NASA scientists are taking mankind to a further realm of space exploration, scientific research, and commercial development. NASA’s science driven agenda is designed to propel future exploration beyond the International Space Station to the formation of space habitations between the Earth, Moon, Mars, and beyond.
The Department of Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) is a program created by NASA Scientists who have dedicated their professional lives to the exploration and development of space. The three objectives set by this department are the exploration of space, the enablement of sustained human life in space, and the enablement of commercial development in space. NASA has created strategic targets to help the department stretch all boundaries of known space exploration. With a series of long range objectives, NASA will advocate the importance of further space research [NME4] will extend into the next century and beyond.
NASA’s second phase for will include 30-90 day missions on the International Space Station and Space Shuttle missions lasting from 7 to 14 days. During this five year phase, the Space Station and Shuttle will serve as the median for all industry and commercial development within Earth’s lower orbit. Improvements and upgrades [NME5] will be added to ensure the safety and reliability of human space travel, a safety concern that is surely heightened after the recent NASA tragedy. ...
Between 2006-2011 plans, NASA will extend human exploration beyond Earth’s lower orbit and will increase mission durations to 100 days. ... The mission’s focus on certain “liberation points” also called Lagrangian Points after the French mathematician who discovered these equilibrium points between planets[NME6] . ... In the article, “NASA Prepares to Boldly Go”, [NME7] Executive Director for the National Space Society, Pat Dasch, notes “These are points were the gravitational pull of two bodies, such as the Earth and the Moon, cancel each other out, providing a stable location to position spacecraft”(1).
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