Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Notional design of Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.
Credit: Lockheed Martin

NASA’s Exploration Campaign calls for establishment of U.S. preeminence in cislunar space through the operations and the deployment of a U.S.-led Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.

Together with the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft, the Gateway has been deemed central to advancing and sustaining human space exploration goals. NASA sees it as a unifying single stepping off point in creating architecture for human cislunar operations, lunar surface access and missions to Mars.

Credit: NASA

Directive 1

The gateway is necessary to achieving the exploration campaign goals set forth by the White House Space Policy Directive 1.

NASA has published a memorandum outlining the agency’s plans to collaboratively build the Gateway.

This document is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/gateway_domestic_and_international_benefits-memo.pdf