NASA will build a habitable base on the dark side of the moon

NASA is gearing up to build a space base on the back side of the moon, reported press office space agency. Re-elected President Barack Obama is in favor of this idea, while his opponent Romney has a conflicting position, as promised spending cuts on science.
It's about creating habitable space base at the point L2 on the back of our heavenly companion. As of 2025 this site is planned to be carried out flights to asteroids, and in 2030 - and to Mars. Such a task Obama put NASA back in 2010 the first flight is expected at this point L2 take place after 2021, when it will be implemented pilotiruem first rocket launch of SLS and ship "Orion".

 


"The station will not only be carried out observations of the solar system, but to make a flight to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and later to Mars," said NASA expert John Logdon. He noted that after the re-election of Obama the agency receives funding necessary to develop a lunar base.