From NBC News: Before humans venture to Mars, NASA wants to send astronauts back to the moon — and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has developed a new lunar lander concept designed to shuttle space flyers between a moon-orbiting space station and the cratered surface below.
Unveiled Oct. 3 at an international space conference in Bremen, Germany, the reusable lander would launch into space aboard NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System rocket and dock with the agency’s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.
This planned outpost is a small moon-orbiting space station that NASA aims to build in the 2020s to serve as a way station for missions to the moon, as well as Mars and other deep-space destinations. Read more...