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NASA Brainstorms Lunar Outpost Concepts With Other Nations

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

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NASA policymakers met with leaders of foreign space agencies to mull the shape of a network of science stations that might be placed on the moon. Leaders of nine space agencies joined the California meeting, including representatives from Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This International Lunar Network (ILN) would involve unmanned mobile or stationary science assets. President Bush offered a vision of a manned U.S. return to the…

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