In a recent article I asked the question has NASA lost its bearings? Well in the last two weeks NASA announced and presented its new four-year plan that looks at objectives with an end timeline that stretch out for as much as two decades in the future. The plan includes 4 key pillars:

It would be a lot easier to get to the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and beyond if we establish stops along the way. That is the idea behind way stations in Deep Space. Currently our only model of a continuously occupied human habitation in space is the International Space Station (ISS). On it