NASA Begins Planning the First Human Mission To Cislunar Space (blastingnews.com)

MarkWhittington writes: With the first launch of the heavy-lift Space Launch System drawing nigh (for no later than November 2018), NASA is already trying to plan the first crewed space mission beyond low-Earth orbit for the early 2020s. However, budget uncertainties plus a couple of congressional mandates are causing uncertainty for the launch manifest for the SLS.

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cis lunar???

[Anonymous Coward]

oh no no no that wont do. we need trans lunar in the name of equality

Re:cis lunar???

[vel-ex-tech]

As the resident expert on all things cis and trans, I'm way ahead of you, AC!

May I recommend Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion?

Check your FUCKING Privilige!

[CajunArson]

I'm tired of your male patriatriachal capitalist hetero lunarism. We demand trans-lunar rights NOW!

Re:Check your FUCKING Privilige!

[reboot246]

Check your spelling! The word is privilege.

But I would mod your post funny if I had any points.

Re:Check your FUCKING Privilige!

[CajunArson]

My next social justice crusade is against the white male patriarchy of correct spelling and grammar.

Re:Check your FUCKING Privilige!

[BarbaraHudson]

The whole abuse of the term 'cis' has always been awkward as all heck. Set it down to SJWs being overly PC who don't want to say "normal people" and "transsexuals".

Rocket to Nowhere Lives Up To Its Name

[Cyberpunk Reality]

Where will the crew be going? Not even NASA knows, but they're going!

What will they be doing? Proving that they can go where ever it is they're going.

The whole mission is a billion-dollar joyride. The best self-licking ice cream cone ever!

Re:Rocket to Nowhere Lives Up To Its Name

[R3d M3rcury]

What will they be doing? Proving that they can go where ever it is they're going.

And making sure the equipment actually works. I assume you'd be first in line to bitch about NASA not doing any testing if something went wrong.

Apollo 9 astronauts spent 10 days orbiting the Earth with a LEM, right? I mean, what a fucking waste! They should have just gone to the Moon.

Re:Rocket to Nowhere Lives Up To Its Name

[ShanghaiBill]

Apollo 9 astronauts spent 10 days orbiting the Earth with a LEM, right? I mean, what a fucking waste! They should have just gone to the Moon.

If they had gone to the moon and succeeded, we would have saved billions of dollars. If they had failed, and died, we would have lost 3 expendable people, at a time when dozens of Americans were dying everyday in Vietnam, and over a hundred were dying everyday in traffic accidents.

Let's take back the words co-opted by SocJus

[Anonymous Coward]

"cis" is a Latin prefix that roughly translates to "on this side of".

It doesn't matter if it was co-opted by some academic leftist tyrants.

We should take back the words they've co-opted.

They only have power when they're allowed to corrupt language.

If we deny them that ability, then they are powerless.

So I think we should use the term "cis" as the Romans wanted us to, and in this case "cislunar" is a perfectly good use of it.

By using the prefix "cis" properly in this case, the social justice movement has actually been dealt a blow.

Re:Let's take back the words co-opted by SocJus

[magarity]

You sound (reads) like gay. But it's alright.

And "gay" is the first word that needs to be reclaimed; as "carefree happiness" it has no synonym. And with all the constant angst over equality and rights, there seems to be very little gayness involved in being gay :/

Re:Let's take back the words co-opted by SocJus

[Z80a]

I'm not entirely sure if that would "hurt" em on any way or shape, or if they would just spin it around to make it fit like: "the CIS white gamergater shitlords are trying to redefine words with their privileges!".
It's not a sane movement made out of people discussing and thinking, but a spiral into madness made out of an echo chamber fueled paranoia, "politically correct racism" created by insane collectivist ideas and some powerful people exploiting it for monetary gain and/or disruption.

And by politically correct racism i don't mean the ol argument of "racism against whites", but against everyone, as they basically group the world into races and genders and define every group as having the proprieties of some of the individuals or the "perceived average".

Re:first crewed space mission beyond low-Earth orb

[BarbaraHudson]

I think it's been so long ago, they've forgotten about the moon walks. Just goes to show what happens when you lose institutional memory, I guess.

Re:first crewed space mission beyond low-Earth orb

[Lotana]

This here is pure-quality flamebait.

It is magnificent!

Reminds me when of Apollo 8

[k6mfw]

when they completed TLI burn and as a child watching it on a B&W TV (over the air reception with rabbit ears), the news commentator said "and that's the burn that will take them to the Moon." In that instant everything changed. Going LEO is like a short walk to the corner drugstore. At mission control in Houston the earth/moon trajectory plot was put on the big board, one of the controllers said, "finally we're going someplace!" And that was only 7 years of going around and around in LEO. However, I wonder if the same were to be repeated again, the "magic" may not be there (think of earth rise photo returned by the crew that lead to Earth Day, EPA, NOAA, etc.). Now these days we got a bunch of religious zealots, deniers, SJWs, but the pics and vid are HD.