More Details From UPI

01/09/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

UPI is reporting more details on the presidents plan, including the fact that they've apparently gotten a sneak peak at the documents. Its still nothing really earth shattering but this paragraph gives me hope: bq. Sources also said private enterprise could play an important role in designing and building the moon craft involved in the early stages of the lunar exploration program. One idea, still in its infancy, would be to create an automated pilot plant on the moon to provide power and other resources for a human lunar outpost.

It's sounding as though the plan is going to be soft on details and long on 'flavor', which can be good or bad depending on whether or not there is some entity that can preserve that 'flavor' between administrations and above NASA's prefered 'flavor'.