Beijing announced last December a five-year plan for space exploration that includes launching a space lab and collecting samples from the moon by 2016.
Beijing announced a five-year plan for space exploration in December that included a space lab and the collection of samples from the moon by 2016.
President Obama's plan for space, announced this year, would terminate the Constellation program, which was to develop rockets to return humans to the moon.
Sir, you were a member of a now defunct organization called God's Plan for Space, and you departed Earth on this ship approximately thirty years ago.
"Now what we're working with is more of a socialist plan for space exploration, which is just anathema to what this country should be doing".
This probably depends on whether Mr Allen shows interest in Scaled Composites' business plan for space tourism, which it intends to put together by the end of the year.
HONG KONG — China's space agency said on Saturday that it will launch astronauts later in June to perform the country's first manned space docking, the latest step in the country's ambitious plan for space exploration.
BEIJING — Broadening its challenge to the United States, the Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.
In other parts of the solar system, NASA's robotic spacecraft Dawn begins exploring the asteroid Vesta in order to find out more about the origins of the solar system, and a mission to Jupiter will be launched.Ticket to ridePresident Barack Obama's plan for space exploration sets a new path for NASA.
However, if the plan for space stations, moon bases, and a Mars base which was issued this spring by the National Commission on Space was meant to be a step in that direction, it seems to have failed to catch the popular imagination..
As part of the actions derived from this commitment, ESA Technology Roadmaps for Exploration represent a powerful tool to prioritise R&D activities in technologies for space exploration and support the preparation of a consistent procurement plan for space exploration technologies in Europe.
