From Space Policy Online: Members of two NASA Advisory Council (NAC) committees representing the science and human exploration communities seem upbeat about the potential of NASA’s concept for a lunar orbiting Gateway. At a joint meeting today, they heard from engineers about the design and scientists about how it can enable “transformative” lunar science. They will report their findings and recommendations to the full NAC when it meets tomorrow and Thursday, but their discussions today conveyed strong support.
The Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) committee heard some details about the Gateway at its meeting yesterday, but this was the Science Committee’s first look.
Jason Crusan, NASA’s director of advanced exploration systems, expanded on the presentations to the HEO committee yesterday and offered a more detailed illustration of the design concept, showing potential contributions from international partners (although he mentioned that one of the modules is not correctly color coded). Read more...