The nearly 500 readers of the Spaceports blog have voted to advise the White House on how to to prioritize the mission of the American space agency over the next several years; and the moon seems to be the one.
A 45% plurality of the poll participants urge that the NASA human program return humans to the Moon and build a lunar base while 28% of the survey respondents urge NASA to seek to place the first humans on Mars. Rounding out the double-digit input was 13% responding favorably to chat NASA's mission to build the first space-based solar power stations.
Fewer participants urged a human survey of the asteriods (5%) and fewer suggested continuation of a priority of sending human expeditions to the International Space Station (2%). Meanwhile a mere 5% suggested halting the human program and going exclusively with unmanned probes throughout the solar system.
Four hundred and eighty four participated in the on-line survey the past few weeks. The results will be reported to the presidential commission now reviewing the NASA's future direction.
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