"Back on the Moon by 2020"Its kind of early for this but:
The space ship that will return astronauts to the Moon should be ready for tests in 2012 and for a manned flight in 2014, NASA announced today. NASA plans to retire its ageing shuttle fleet, which has suffered two disasters, by 2010 and replace it with a Crew Exploration Vehicle to take astronauts back to the Moon by 2020.
NASA has assigned program tasks to 10 of its centres, from Ames Research Centre in California's Silicon Valley to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida for launching.
The Glenn Research Centre in Ohio, despite recent staffing cuts, will be in charge of developing the vehicle. US astronauts first landed on the moon in 1969 and most recently landed in 1972.
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