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NASA to Unveil Plans to Send 4 Astronauts to Moon in 2018

By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 14 September 2005
6:43 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON – NASA briefed senior White House officials Wednesday on its
plan to spend $100 billion and the next 12 years building the spacecraft
and rockets it needs to put humans back on the Moon by 2018.

The U.S. space agency now expects to roll out its lunar exploration plan
to key Congressional committees on Friday and to the broader public
through a news conference on Monday, Washington sources tell SPACE.com.

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