Article: Back to the moon.(Editorials)(NASA's lunar ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  December 8, 2006 ;     659 words ... ... astronauts to the moon in 2020, and establish a permanent lunar base by 2024, is too ... spacecraft to the moon and supporting long-term residents at a lunar base would be expensive ... to return to the moon - proving that it ... Otherwise, the lunar base will suffer ...

Article: Members of First and Last Apollo Missions to the Moon To ...
PR Newswire;  June 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... human return to the Moon. The "Lunar Base Development Symposium ... commercially viable Lunar base within the next ... Some say the Moon was abandoned after ... to return to the Moon -- and this time ... information on the Lunar Base One Symposium ...

Article: CREW OF FIRST MANNED FLIGHT TO MOON URGES MARS MISSION BUT ...
The Boston Globe;  July 21, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... the words "Carried to the moon by Apollo 11 and presented ... plaque. The plan to make a moon base NASA's first priority ... end. "I don't think the moon is a steppingstone to Mars," he said. "A lunar base would be an enormous diversion ...

Transcript: Moon Society Encouraged by Plans for Lunar ...
NPR All Things Considered;  December 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Considered (NPR) 12-05-2006 Moon Society Encouraged by Plans for Lunar Base Host: MELISSA BLOCK Time 21 ... ever considered living on the moon? The 1986 National Commission ... begins the settlement of the moon and the planets. BLOCK: That ...

Article: Moon has enough frozen water to support colony, NASA says ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps to one day build a ... Preliminary estimates indicate that the moon holds enough water, in widely ... use extraterrestrial resources moon water converted to rocket fuel ...

Article: Moon crater with possible reserves of ice may be perfect ...
The Hindustan Times;  July 29, 2008 ;     596 words ... ... a prime real estate on the Moon is much older than previously ... kilometres across and sits near the Moon's south pole. It is being eyed as a site for a lunar base because its bottom is permanently ... from SMART-1's Advanced Moon micro-Imager Experiment ...

Article: The moon's a nice place to visit, but NASA wants to live ...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  December 7, 2006 ;     461 words ... ... Maine) 12-07-2006 The moon's a nice place to visit, but NASA wants to live there ; A lunar base would serve science first ... permanent research station on the moon, it could end up being cheaper ... a permanent presence on the moon nearly 40 years after the first ...