<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fbff1c86-8925-480f-9e90-8ef338f41667/DA7B2292-2F85-4163-BF5A-8F4CA3A3AC33/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/MNGTBMPIDB1.DTL" href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/MNGTBMPIDB1.DTL" style="font-size: 11px;">sfgate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/MNGTBMPIDB1.DTL"><FONT size="2">NASA announced plans Monday to begin building a permanent base on the moon by 2024, four years after the space agency starts sending crews of four astronauts there for weeklong exploratory missions. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/MNGTBMPIDB1.DTL"><FONT size="2">The base would probably be located near the lunar south pole and be staffed by rotating teams of international astronauts for up to six months at a time, according to NASA officials. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/MNGTBMPIDB1.DTL"><FONT size="2">Even now, all the schedules are tentative and detailed plans are still being developed, Dale said. A NASA-sponsored international space exploration conference focusing on the moon, Mars and beyond is under way in Houston, she said. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/MNGTBMPIDB1.DTL"><FONT size="2">The first new robot reconnaissance mission to the moon will actually start next year, with the launch of a spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will circle the poles on the lookout for natural resources that might prove useful to later astronauts. </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA7B2292-2F85-4163-BF5A-8F4CA3A3AC33/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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