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Space

NASA-Funded Study Believes Returning Humans To Moon Possible For Around $10 Billion

Pat Host

Tuesday, July 21st, 2015

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NASA-Funded Study Believes Returning Humans To Moon Possible For Around $10 Billion

Artist's illustration of a potential base on the moon. Photo: NexGen Space LLC.

A NASA-funded study believes the United States could return a human to the moon in about five-to-seven years for roughly $10 billion using two independent and competing commercial service providers in a government-industry arrangement.The study, led by NexGen Space LLC President and former NASA senior advisor for commercial space Charles Miller and co-principal investigator, Alan Wilhite of Wilhite Consulting, Inc., finds that returning a human to the moon could potentially be achieved within NASA’s existing deep space human spaceflight budget.…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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