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"Our efforts to reroute and land the first manned lunar

May 12, 2018 by James Ashley

"Our efforts to reroute and land the first manned lunar lander, JPL-14L, were not sufficient to save our state and our nation's economic and national security. We are taking all those efforts to help NASA make sure its mission to the Moon is successful," the authors wrote. "We are also asking for NASA's support to ensure that the JPL-14L rocket can meet the needs of NASA. We will continue to work with JPL-14L to ensure that both facilities maintain the high standards and professionalism that they are expected to be for the use of the next 10 years."

The letter was received on the day of a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Space Policy and Government, chaired by Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Steve King (R-IA), and Frank LoBiondo (R-IA). "Our goal is to bring the first manned lunar lander to the public domain while protecting and enhancing a country's ability to conduct its missions to the moon," the two lawmakers said. In addition to the two legislators, the subcommittee is also requesting that NASA give Congress a copy of NASA's mission plans, which are being reviewed for approval by the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

If Congress does not do so, the astronauts will have to go to the moon to land. It is unclear at this point what exactly these astronauts'll be doing. However, NASA has already begun to press for more landings on the Moon using human landers. In August, the agency announced that it had selected three landers to land on the Moon: a spacecraft called the Dragon spacecraft, designed to launch astronauts to the lunar surface and land them before they can return to Earth.

In October, NASA announced that the Dragon spacecraft, which will be launched into orbit around the moon by 2020, will send back a crew of astronauts to the moon. But as the Dragon spacecraft approaches the moon, it will be subjected to gravitational stress from the Moon's gravity. After its flight, the Dragon spacecraft will be subjected to a series of tests that will determine whether it can withstand the gravity of the Moon, and it will then return to Earth in a robotic mode to be returned to the lunar surface. Although not the most cost effective method for resupply from the lunar surface, it will have the most potential for saving the country billions of dollars per year in costs associated with manned lunar landers.