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Former astronaut Terry Virts (center), speaking on a panel at the June 18 National Space Council meeting, argued against pursuing the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.

A former NASA astronaut used an appearance at a National Space Council meeting June 18 to argue that a key element of NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon should be reconsidered.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...