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Astrobotic To Take Mexican Payload To the Moon
MarkWhittington writes: One of the great results of the commercial space revolution, which promises to lower the cost of space travel, is the opportunities it opens for countries and private entities to operate in space who would not otherwise be able to do so. The latest example of this phenomenon is the agreement by Astrobotic, one of the competitors in the Google Lunar X Prize, to take a yet to be determined payload provided by the Agencia Espacial Mexicana, according to a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The arrangement will help Mexico become the first Latin American country to land and operate a payload on the lunar surface.
... please tell me that payload will include a Jeb doll
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Now we will be able to get Mexican food on the moon
a SD card with a copy of Kerbal Space Program would fit....
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due to a design error in the solar charging module, the payload shut down at high noon each month for several days, however this means the device was able to keep operating well into the lunar night.
The payload module approaches the lunar surface, retros blazing. Slowly, carefully...contact light! Descent engine cutoff!
Immediately, dozens of astronauts pile out of the capsule and scatter wildly in every direction.
They don't have clean drinking water but they have a space program? I think their brains are refried.
Let's wait and see if Astrobotic ever even makes it to LEO before counting those chickens.
I mean, if it was a scientific package from a Mexican university ...
It is a scientific package from a Mexican university.
They look for ancient Aztec ruins on the moon.
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I'm waiting for the first Coca-Cola Ad transported to the moon and visible from earth.
That's right. What most people don't realize is that the moon is the remnants of a space craft that ran out of fuel. It been collecting dust ever since. The Aztecs and you might say Adam and eve are direct results of the instance. They came down looking for a fuel source but didn't have the tools to make use of any resources they found. Due to diverse scattering, They grew apart in identities and their civilized ways somewhat devolved into distinct cultures once resources from the mother ship ran out and future generations had to fend for themselves.
...to his or her moon?
not considered a payload then ?
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Given that America has largely dropped out of the space race except for unmanned stuff and what the private sector is doing ... I'm glad to see someone is still trying to put stuff on the moon.
Because so far that's a pretty small and exclusive club.
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Had to .. this post reminds me of that hilarious South Park Episode.
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Exactly who are they racing? Putting men or satellites in orbit has become quite pedestrian. Private companies offering launch services are only possible because of the money spent and the R&D generated by 50+ years worth of government sponsored missions and supporting technologies. That is the way things should work. And until the government actually comes up with a realistic destination the unmanned probes flying around the solar system gathering information will have to suffice. Spending shit loads of money for a "plant the flag" mission to Mars seems like a tremendous waste of money.If a private company wants to take on a manned Mars mission more power to them.
Countries are still interested in the moon.
I agree, I'd love to see manned missions, and would be ecstatic about a moon base. Mexico putting a "yet to be determined" package on the moon isn't quite the same thing.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
ITT a bunch of a**holes trying to put down Mexico's efforts with the same boring jokes and old tired stereotypes.