Griffin on Loss of U.S. Space Leadership

"Jorge R. Frank" jrfrank wrote:

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in
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What I don't understand is why we aren't rushing an unmanned mission
to the lunar poles to resolve the water issue ASAP. It seems to me
that exploration architecture plans would be strongly driven by the
answer to that question.

LRO was initiated shortly after the VSE announcement and is planned for a
2008 launch. That is about as close as NASA can get to "ASAP".

Which follows the planned 2007 launch of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a
NASA instrument on India's first lunar probe Chandrarayan(sp?) 1 and
preludes a lunar polar lander tentatively scheduled for 2010.

Mike

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