[minMars] NASA unveils concept for plan about work toward a test of a Space Launch System

[Thomas Coffee]

"NASA has yet to work out the details of how it could use the new rocket,
and the launching schedule beyond the first test flight will depend highly
on future budgets. Internal NASA documents suggest that if the space
agency’s budget remains flat, providing about $41 billion between now and
2025, then the first manned flight would not occur until 2021, and the
rocket would fly only once every two years, and NASA would not finish the
130 metric ton version until after 2030."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/space/15nasa.html

Charlie Bolden summed it up well: "... tomorrow's explorers will now dream
of one day walking on Mars." Just like they have for the last half-century.



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Thomas Coffee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Space Systems Laboratory
617.549.5492

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