NASA Plans Lunar Mobile Phone Network

If NASA and the British National Space Centre succeed in their 'MoonLite mission' you won't be able to say, "In space no one can hear your ringtone." They plan on building a satellite system/phone network that would provide full four-bar signal coverage for colonists living in the base NASA wants to build at the south pole of the moon after 2020.

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[elrous0]

One of these days, I really want to work as a CG-animator at NASA. That's the closest anyone at NASA will ever come to actually landing on the moon or Mars. And they get to do it every week, thanks to some new bullshit promise.

And the best part of working at NASA? No one ever calls you on it when your bullshit promises don't pan out! Just keep making new ones!