NASA Wants The Lunar Gateway To Do Everything For Everyone

Take a look at this @NASA Powerpoint slide from the #NASA Advisory Council meeting today. In addition to all of the lunar stuff now they want to do Mars sample return handling/processing. As if the Gateway already tried to do everything for everyone - now there's even more to do pic.twitter.com/HdbbOJkFDq — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 27, 2018

FYI @SciGuySpace his is what @NASA came up with the last time they talked about handling Mars samples in space: "Orbiting quarantine facility. The Antaeus report" https://t.co/JeOM2j49NY . Looks familiar, eh? Kinda like LOP-g/Gateway. Just sayin' pic.twitter.com/vPMXkaVW9o — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 27, 2018

Well @SciGuySpace all you have to do is look at the requirements that @NASA has already levied on itself for handling extraterrestrial materials - on Earth - and then add possible biology reqs - and then do all of that inside *one* module on the LOP-G/Gateway thing. $$$$$$ https://t.co/FzrsHqsKrV

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 27, 2018

Keith's note: In addition to all of the unfinished work from ISS that will somehow be accomplished on the Lunar Gateway NASA also wants to handle samples returned from Mars. Back in the 80s when NASA toyed with this idea they decided that an entire mini-space station was needed. Oddly it was on the same scale as the Gateway. To be certain, technology has advanced since then but the notion that NASA can shove activities with requiring high levels of biocontainment into a small, cramped mini-space station strains the limits of credibility.

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