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Back to the Moon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the momentum-a-political-problem-also dept.

starexplorer2001 writes "Space.com is reporting that NASA's planned trip back to the Moon isn't without a significant amount of science and technological innovation. Simply 'sponging off Apollo' won't do it. Among the issues: safer human spaceflight, lunar ice, sustainability, robotic scouting missions and more. This won't be easy."

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  1. Re:Moon Base Bush is pie in the sky by Soulfarmer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Umm...exactly who is proposing we launch a Mars mission from the Moon? Bush sure isn't, and neither is any other sane person.

    Any other sane person? Did you mean "neither is any sane person"?

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