Trump Wants NASA to Build a $2.7 Billion Lunar Space Station

Five years from now could see humans living near the moon. Part of President Trump's 2019 NASA budget proposal allocates $2.7 billion between 2019-2023 to construct the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.

This structure would be similar to the International Space Station, except it would orbit the Moon instead of the Earth. "The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will give us a strategic presence in cislunar space," explained William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. "It will drive our activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the Moon and its resources. We will ultimately translate that experience toward human missions to Mars."


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