Vision for Space Exploration - Definition and Overview

The Vision for Space Exploration is the United States space policy announced on January 14, 2004 by George W. Bush. It is a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the state of the human spaceflight at NASA and the general absence of Presidential leadership of the civilian space program.

The vision calls for the space program to:

• Complete the International Space Station (by 2010)
• Retire the Space Shuttle (by 2010)
• Develop the Crew Exploration Vehicle (by 2008) and conduct its first manned mission (by 2014)
• Explore the moon with unmanned missions (by 2008) and manned missions (by 2020)
• Explore Mars and other destinations with unmanned and manned missions

See also

• Space exploration

External links

• NASA: The Vision for Space Exploration (http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html)
• President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy (http://www.moontomars.org/)
• NASA: Exploration Systems (http://exploration.nasa.gov/)