NASA's New Mission to the Moon

mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has a new, in-depth preview of NASA's Orion spacecraft, tracking the complex challenges facing the engineers of the CEV (which NASA chief Michael Griffin called 'Apollo on steroids') as America shifts its focus away from the Space Shuttle and back toward returning to the moon by 2020. After yesterday's long op-ed in the New York Times concerning NASA's about-face, Popular Mechanic's interview with Buzz Aldrin and podcast with Transterrestrial.com's Rand Simberg raise perhaps the most pressing questions here: Is it worth going back to the lunar surface? And will we actually stay there?"

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Re:Good question

[elrous0]

there's plenty of research to do on the lunar surface.

Great, we spend 100's of billions of dollars so a team of yahoos can wander around a sterile rock saying "Boy, THAT rock looks interesting! Oooohh, look at THIS dust!" Aren't there about 10,000 or so research projects here on earth we could fund with that money instead--research that might produce a cure for cancer or a radical new desalinization method, instead of just "An Examination of Geological Strata in Quadrant G:5, Tranquility Basin" a paper by Dr. Roland R. Dipsitz?

-Eric

Re:Race is over

[oh_my_080980980]

ROFL

Your kidding right? We have to colonize space now because we are going to run out of natural resources sometime in the future.

Wow, I am astounded by your sheer lack of intelligence.

In what world do you conceive of anyone on this planet with the capability to colonize any planet in this solar system?

Good job genius.

Re:Race is over

[Pojut]

I'm more concerned with the fact that we are going to destroy our entire species by sitting on this rock.

You don't shit where you eat. Especially when where you eat is the only room you currently can survive in.

Of course, you contributing to the gene pool won't help. I recommend castration.