Experts to Discuss U.S. Space Plan
Back to the Moon? Push on to Mars? Visit an asteroid?
At
Stanford University on Tuesday, 50 space experts and advocates from the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, industry, academia and advocacy groups are gathering to ask whether the United States is on the right track in its plans to reach the Moon by 2020, build a long-term lunar base there and eventually send humans to Mars.
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