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Countries Considering Circumlunar Flight From ISS
FleaPlus writes "The BBC reports that the space agencies of Europe, Russia, and the US are in (very) preliminary discussions about a potential collaborative mission where astronauts would assemble a small spacecraft at the ISS, then fly it around the Moon and back. This is somewhat similar to previously-proposed commercial missions, with many elements adapted from spacecraft systems already in existence. This would also be a testbed for eventual asteroid and Mars missions, which would likely require modules to be launched on multiple rockets and assembled in space."
I think they should make it look like an awesome motorcycle, with flames painted on it and a kick-ass logo with a skull, spinners, and a lot of chrome--I mean a LOT of fucking chrome! And that shit should have hydraulics too, just a crazy lift kit...an INSANE lift kit!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Cue all the private space launch company fans.
There's only outfit that can do it.
That outfit is Energia
Have fun.
Yours In Baikonur,
Kilgore T.
using a space station as a station...in space!
*Sitting in my lavish study with the window overlooking the hedge maze, idly browsing Slashdot while sipping expensive brandy*
The extraordinarily rich dumped their life savings into what was, essentially, a giant penis waving contest.
*Monocle pops out of eye*
Great Scott! That's it!
*Picks up the phone and hits speed dial #1*
Benson! Be a good chap and cancel the space exploration initiative. I know, it was very exciting, but it won't be necessary anymore. I've found a much more direct way to accomplish the same thing! Instead, I want you to redirect all the funding to constructing a tremendous waving phallus! I mean tremendous like the Burj Khalif, only thicker! No, not a merely phallic tower, I mean as close to an actual phallus as possible. And it has to wave back and forth while still remaining proudly erect in testament to my manhood. You see now? Good. Yes, of course it needs testicles! You're not much of a man with one but not the other, right? What's that, Benson? Ah, I'm not sure. Let's let the architect decide if that would make it look too Jewish. Good. Then get to it, and do keep it quiet as much as possible. You know as soon as my peers hear of this idea, they'll start making plans for even bigger ones, so mine must at least be the first to be finished and waving in their faces! Thank you, Benson.
*Hangs up the phone*
Ah, thank you Slashdot. To think I was going to waste all that money on a moon base! How silly that would have been!
The enemies of Democracy are
Send the entire moon! I'll bet we could have done it with 1999 technology!
And whos fault is that?