Plan racjonalnie zakłada współpracę Bramy z bazą księżycową.
Ale czy przesuwanie środków budżetowych zapewni działanie systemu, nawet po deorbitacji ISS (zwłaszcza kiedy NASA będzie parcypowała w następczyni ISS ?)
Lunar base and Gateway part of sustainable long-term human exploration planby Jeff Foust — April 23, 2019
(...) NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, speaking at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs April 9, also discussed what he described as a two-phase approach to the new exploration plan that emphasized speed first, followed by sustainability. That approach would make use of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, along with lunar landers yet to be developed and a lunar Gateway that, at least initially, might involve only a fraction of the elements previously proposed for the human-tended facility in lunar orbit. (...)
https://spacenews.com/lunar-base-and-gateway-part-of-sustainable-long-term-human-exploration-plan/