Die NASA schlug dem damaligen Präsidenten Nixon 1969 einen Drei-Optionen-Plan für die Zeit nach Apollo vor. Die erste Option sah eine Verdoppelung des NASA-Budgets, die Schaffung einer Raumstation um die Erde mit einer Kapazität von 50 Personen und zwei bemannten Mondaußenposten vor und bemannte Missionen zum Mars in den 1980er Jahren.

“[Option I – this option required more than a doubling of NASA’s budget by 1980 to enable a human Mars mission in the 1980s, establishment of a lunar orbiting space station, a 50-person Earth orbiting space station, and a lunar base. A decision would be required by 1971 on development of an Earth-to-orbit transportation system to support the space station. A strong robotic scientific and exploration program would be maintained.](https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-after-apollo-what-space-task-group-report-to-president-nixon/)

[Option II – this option maintained NASA’s budget at then current levels for a few years then anticipated a gradual increase to support the parallel development of both an earth orbiting space station and an Earth-to-orbit transportation system, but deferred a Mars mission to about 1986. A strong robotic scientific and exploration program would be maintained, but smaller than in Option I.
](https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-after-apollo-what-space-task-group-report-to-president-nixon/)

[Option III – essentially the same as Option II but deferred indefinitely the human Mars mission.
](https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-after-apollo-what-space-task-group-report-to-president-nixon/)

[In separate letters, both Agnew and Paine recommended to President Nixon to choose Option II.](https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-after-apollo-what-space-task-group-report-to-president-nixon/)”

Pretty sure this is the timeline the new Naughty dog game is gonna be in…