Preparations for Space W6

To explore space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has to think about what will help them progress to where they want to be. The first thing they want to try is to crash an unmanned spacecraft on to the surface of the moon. In NASA Attacks the Moon, it was said that NASA wants to know if the impacts will reveal any ice or water under the moon's surface. The estimated cost of the LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and its Sensing Satellite) is around $79 million and that is just to make something that will be destroyed. Along with trying to discover if the Moon has traces of ice or water, there is also finding a way to launch people into space. In Blasted into space from a giant air giant air gun, Jules Verne wrote about a giant gun that could launch people into space and people didn't expect it to be a reality. The estimated cost to build the gun is around $500 million. With all missions comes the approval needed from the higher authority. The approval is needed for more money to send more stuff into outer space. In 'Deep space' mission is frontrunner in NASA review, a proposal to send astronauts to visit asteroids and and orbit Mars scored highly in ratings in the White House. "Since 2005, NASA has been working towards returning astronauts to the moon by 2020. But in May, the Obama administration ordered a review of the agency's human space flight plan, leaving a question mark over the lunar return.The review panel, headed by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, released a summary report in September that presented five main options, including continuing with the current moon plan.One of the other options, called the 'deep space' or flexible path, would send astronauts to visit an asteroid and eventually to orbit Mars.The panel is expected to submit a final report later in October, which will score the various options on a set of 12 criteria, such as cost, safety, benefits to science, and fostering international cooperation." with this in mind, if the certain critia are met, then NASA will have the funds to accomplish what they wanted to by sending peopel to Mars.