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To the Moon and Beyond
isorox writes "The BBC is reporting that 'Europe is considering sending humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond within the next few decades', although the UK government 'does not support human space flight and will not fund UK citizens to go through the official European astronaut training programme'. However while plans are made for the next 30 years, Rosetta is due to launch in 2 weeks time, ready to rendevous and land on a comet in 2011. Assuming it doesn't blow up on launch."
Cool! Go EU!
This will fulfill the EUs mandate to send astronauts with God-awful teeth into space! Well done, England! Well done!
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These Europeans you speak off... are they some sort of fruit? In all seriousness though, what kind of space program does europe have, sans Russia of course.
Well, I don't think anyone else has been to the moon. So it would be a first I suppose.
Oh, you mean that hollywood flick starring Niel Armstrong? How many Oscars was that?
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Sending people into space is a complete waste of money and resources at this point. We should take up manned missions when space is so cheap that it just doesn't make sense to send equipment up there without them.
It's fundamentally different now than in the 60s. In the 60s, space was a challenge -- sending men to the moon would be the greatest accomplishment in all history. We simply didn't know if it was possible or not.
But now? Big f'ing deal. Does anyone have any doubt that with enough time and money it's trivial to go to Mars? I mean, not "trivial", but certainly not a "grand question of mankind". It's just an engineering question at this point.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.