I’m going to give a basic overview of NASA’s Deep Space Gateway and how it fits in NASA’s overall plan to go to Mars.
If you don’t know, President Trump reinstated the National Space Council who had their first meeting on October 5th of this year.
Vice President Mike Pence, the Chair of the National Space Council announced that the United States will turn their attention to the Moon as their first target for manned space missions.
And the Deep Space Gateway, DSG for short, is the main mission behind this new direction for NASA.
I think the DSG is a fantastic idea and I can’t wait until we get started on the first phase of the mission.
What is the DSG and what makes it great?
Let’s find out!
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Alright so the DSG will allow humanity to have a permanent presence BEYOND LEO.
For the past 44 years, astronauts have not gone beyond 250 miles above the Earth’s surface on the International Space Station, within the safety of Earth’s Magnetosphere.
The Earth’s Magnetosphere extends 40,000 Miles facing the sun and almost 4 Million miles away from the sun, and provides protection against HAZARDOUS solar radiation that is deadly if not properly protected.
But that will all change with the DSG which will be around 240,000 miles from Earth.
And having a permanent presence on the border of deep space is a big deal because we’ve been stuck in LEO for over 40 years!
The DSG will provide a proving ground to develop and test technologies that will allow astronauts to travel and survive in deep space.
The DSG will have 3 main purposes:
The 1st purpose is that it will serve as a Space Port for the Deep Space Transport. The Deep Space Transport is the vehicle that will take astronauts to Mars, it will be reusable, and dock on or near the DSG between missions to Mars and beyond, where it will be resupplied and have maintenance done; all in space, at the DSG, I think that is so awesome!
The Deep Space Transport uses a combination of chemical and Ion Propulsion technology currently in development.

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