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Back to the Moon?

Posted by michael on from the nasa-will-probably-fake-this-one-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This BBC story discusses the prospects of probes returning to the moon. The article first mentions the ESA's SMART-1 probe, which will overfly the Apollo landing sites during 2003, and then talks with US scientists about why NASA should send probes back."

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  1. Re:Quit being Pussies, build a moonbase by Squiffy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's unfortunate that the U.S. spent so much money beating the Russians to the Moon. Sure, it's a good thing that humans went there at all, but because we pushed so hard to go there for the wrong reasons, these days people look back at how quickly the U.S. space program was advancing c. 1970 and expect things to be much farther along than they are. The truth is, however, that we need to stop comparing Humanity's space presence to what it would have been if the Cold War hadn't ended. That doesn't mean I'm not anxious for faster space development. I'm just aware of the fact that politics, personal agendas, and other human maladies constitute only part of what makes going to space hard.