Vision for Space Exploration


Vision for Space Exploration

NASA's main plan for its future and the future of US space exploration in the early 21st century. It emerged in a speech made by President George W. Bush on Jan. 14 2004, in which he ‘set a new course for America's space program.’ The Vision program outlined a ‘building-block’ strategy of human and robotic missions, commencing with the return of the space shuttle to regular service following the loss of Columbia in Feb. 2003 and the completion of the International Space Station. The program calls for the return of humans to the Moon by 2020 and seeks to pave the way for human missions to explore Mars and beyond.