{"id":3338,"date":"2013-07-12T03:02:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2013-07-12T03:13:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:13:06","slug":"lowering-costs-for-esa-manned-space-for-nasa-moon-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"Lowering costs for ESA manned space &#038; for NASA Moon missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16114043697010364282\" target=\"_d\">Bob Clark<\/a> points me to a couple of recent posts on his <a href=\"http:\/\/exoscientist.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polymath<\/a> blog regarding manned space vehicle policies at NASA and ESA:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/exoscientist.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/on-lasting-importance-of-spacex_17.html\" target=\"_d\">On the lasting importance of the SpaceX accomplishment, Page 5: a letter to the European space industry<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 He &#8220;argues that Europe by emulating NASA&#8217;s commercial space program can produce a manned spaceflight capability and produce a launcher of comparable low cost to the Falcon 9&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/exoscientist.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/budget-moon-flights-letter-to-nasa.html\" target=\"_d\">Budget Moon Flights: letter to NASA<\/a> &#8211; Here he &#8220;argues that by following a combination of the commercial space and other cost-cutting approaches, the cost of a Moon mission can be cut perhaps by <em><strong>three<\/strong><\/em> orders of magnitude&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Clark points me to a couple of recent posts on his Polymath blog regarding manned space vehicle policies at NASA and ESA: On the lasting importance of the SpaceX accomplishment, Page 5: a letter to the European space industry &#8211;\u00a0 He &#8220;argues that Europe by emulating NASA&#8217;s commercial space program can produce a manned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lowering costs for ESA manned space &#038; for NASA Moon missions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-RQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19030,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19030","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; 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