NASA has detailed its plans to spend at least $68 million until 2013 on the development of the largest rocket ever, its proposed Ares V cargo launch vehicle (CaLV) that will send the USA back to the Moon by 2020.
Taller and more powerful than the Apollo programme's Saturn V launcher, with a gross lift-off mass of just over 3.7 million kg (8.17 million lb), the 116m (360ft)-high rocket is limited by NASA's Kennedy Space Center vehicle assembly building's height. Read more...
NASA has realized finally that there's no other place worth while to explore but the moon for possibilities of sanctuary when earth's enviorment conditions fail in the future. The moon is the best choice however everything constructed there should be placed miles beneath the surface because even though it should survive the moon will be showered with at least two major metor showers in the future. Thanks to Samadhi I know this information.