"It has been six months since President George Bush announced at NASA Headquarters a new space exploration program for the nation, an effort now known as the Vision for Space Exploration. Since that time the path has hardly been a smooth one for the vision. It has been criticized in the press, in many cases being wrongly accused of being a trillion-dollar mission to Mars."
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Editor's Note: In this editorial, Moon-Mars commission member Paul Spudis takes issue with the way that the 2011 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is being implemented.
Posted by jburk at July 26, 2026 11:24 AM | TrackBackThe vision it would seem is being blocked by the old Nasa can be the only ones to do space barrier as it would seem as it comes to privitization of space. An Article Howling at the Moon: Space Entrepreneurs See Red Over Mars Favoritism by Leonard David speaks to this point.
"There are troublesome signs at NASA as its moves out on the new space vision, reported David Gump, President of LunaCorp, based in Reston, Virginia.
There are companies ready and willing to offer up a commercially-supplied alternative to a government funded, government operated, government owned lunar orbiter, Gump suggested. "So the first step has not been terribly auspicious in terms of involvement of the private sector," he added."
After reading some of this article I would agree that the old walls are going up.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at July 28, 2026 06:11 AM