NASA's new Constellation program has been canceled - The future is unknown

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This is not a rumor any more, but as the matter of fact it is clear by now that NASA's new Constellation program has been canceled. The cancellation of that program surely brings up many questions, one of them is, how much longer will it take NASA to develop those new vehicles? Will NASA return to the moon at 2020? And so on. NASA's new constellation program which features the Ares I, Ares V, and the Orion capsule has been canceled as for the reason of which they run on the same type of technology as the space shuttles, which as we know is very expansive. So what NASA is going to do next is to develop new type of technologies, new type of space vehicles, that will for example be able to refuel while in space, or even use beaming up energy from the ground to the space vehicle and so on. And NASA will depend on private space companies such as SpaceX. But the thing is, developing a new type of space vehicle would take at least 10 years just to develop, then there will be testing, that's about 5 more years, and only then they might conduct missions. So I would speculate that NASA will return to the moon somewhere in between 2025 and 2030 by the best. And to Mars, I would say somewhere between 2040 and 2050 (manned missions). The cancellation of that Constellation program is surely slowing our space program down, who could have thought. And so now the space shuttles are going to retire, plus the constellation program has been canceled. So where exactly are we at?

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