NASA would not return to moon soon !!!

When President Barack Obama announced the committee to review NASA's manned space program, a senior officer said privately, they were hoping, this group will suggest a cheaper way to land again on moon. But last week,the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee came to a trouble conclusion: NASA's budget offers no hope for operating new maned space program for 20 years or more.

Options presented to the White House by members of the Augustine Committee is as follows :

* Continue Constellation Program of Ares I rocket. Space shuttle retired in 2011. International space station closed in 2015. First moon orbit after 2028. Cost: $99 billion through 2020; $205 billion through 2030

* Retire shuttle in 2011.Keep the station until 2020. Use commercial rocket. First moon orbit after 2028. Cost: $101 billion through 2020; $204 billion through 2030.

* Fly shuttle until 2015; extend station to 2020, with commercial rockets taking crew there. First moon orbit in early 2020s. No cost data available.

* Build a shuttle-derived rocket; use orbiting fuel depots to orbit moon in 2023; asteroids in 2027; Mars in 2029; land on moon by 2030. Cost: $123 billion through 2020; $266 billion through 2030.

* Build a commercial rocket; use fuel depots to orbit moon in 2024, asteroids in 2026, Mars in 2028 and land on the moon in 2029. $123 billion to 2020; $256 billion to 2030.

* Use commercial rockets to space station. Build Ares V "lite" to orbit moon in 2025, asteroids in 2030, Mars in 2034; land on moon in 2035. $126 billion through 2020; $272 billion through 2030.