Making yet another progressive step towards understanding the deep secrets of the space, NASA – the pioneering US agency dealing with technology & science related to air and space – has made an announcement that it will “establish a crewed spaceport near the Moon that could serve as a gateway to the lunar surface and deep space destinations including Mars.” According to AsiaOne, Asia’s leading magazine, a spaceport near Moon would be best suited for gaining new insights into the space’s deep secrets helping human missions to get access to the other parts of the solar system. This crew-tended spaceport will serve as a gateway to deep space and the lunar surface, will be equipped with a power bus, a small habitat to extend crew time, docking capability, and an airlock, and will be serviced by logistics modules to enable research. “The gateway could move to support robotic or partner missions to the surface of the Moon, or to a high lunar orbit to support missions departing from the gateway to other destinations in the solar system,” according to William H. Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA. This is the first phase of exploration near Moon which will further give way to extend the current operations of the agency. It will play a big role in the new missions that aim at exploring other destinations of the solar system. The second phase will confirm whether long-duration missions beyond the moon are possible by the agency’s capabilities built for humans. This second phase is expected to culminate by the end of 2020s. According to AsiaOne News, NASA has also planned to build a deep space transport spacecraft for the destinations farther in the space. AsiaOne News further reports that this spacecraft would be a reusable vehicle that would use electric & chemical propulsion, and would be specifically designed for crewed missions to destinations such as Mars. The transport spacecraft would take crew out to their destination and return them to the gateway, where it can be serviced and sent out again.
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