(Earth Defence) - '..NASA establish a lunar base sooner [2020] - [Lunar Orbital Station 2018]..'

'..Bigelow Aerospace habitat will be flown to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket in 2015 for testing..'

<blockquote>'While China may be working toward a manned mission to the Moon by 2025, Bigelow hopes he can help NASA establish a lunar base sooner, though he said that depends on a lot going right. He's delayed manufacturing and signing contracts with customers until he can be guaranteed transport.

Meanwhile, one Bigelow Aerospace habitat will be flown to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket in 2015 for testing. At a news conference Tuesday with Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's head of Human Exploration, both sides agreed they need each other: NASA needs the low-cost, fast moving expertise of private ventures, while companies like Bigelow Aerospace need a core customer to get these businesses off the ground, literally.'

- '..NASA get back to the moon, and even Mars, faster and cheaper.' November 13, 2013</blockquote>


Context

<blockquote>Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft

Bigelow Aerospace Wants Atlas 5 Rockets for New Space Station

Obama: We're off to Mars - By Lester Haines (Mars - 'The 2020 rover')


Plasma physics, space research and the origin of the solar system - By Hannes Alfvén

(The Electric Universe) - 'Space .. flows with electric activity .. NASA .. to send humans to an asteroid..'

(Earth Defence - Earth Shield) - 'Nine ships from Brunei, China, Singapore and the U.S. sailed together from Guam to Pearl Harbor.'


'SpaceX unveils new spacecraft..' - Dragon V2

40 Years Later, It's Moon Race 2.0 - By Jeffrey Kluger</blockquote>