Slashdot Mirror
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.
We hardly knew you!
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
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.
Let's wait and see if Astrobotic ever even makes it to LEO before counting those chickens.
Probably another whale. It was bad enough that the first one they sent to the moon got all those stupid whalers killed.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.