NASA is setting its sights on an asteroid as the next big landing destination for astronaut explorers
Special Correspondent
May 23, 2012

NASA is setting its sights on an asteroid as the next big landing destination for astronaut explorers, but senior officials with two of the agency's international space station (ISS) partners say the Moon should be the goal. According to the article, at yesterday's roundtable of global space leaders at the Global Space Exploration Conference, the head of Roscosmos called for a new lunar base and JAXA Associate Executive Director Yuichi Yamaura thought agencies should use the space station to test the technology needed to get there.

NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot agreed the ISS is a great test bed for lunar technology, but the article notes that is all the support he gave.

Meanwhile, ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain cautioned that forging an international consensus on human exploration beyond Earth orbit will not be easy.

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