We Choose the Moon: Launch

Tuesday, 4 August 2009

via wechoosethemoon.org

This is awesome. I was born a few years after the race to the moon. What a great time it would have been for all those that got to see/hear this live! In the four decades, life on earth has changed so much — we’ve been de-sensitized to the miracle of flight and technology , and yet the spectacle of space travel is exhilarating as ever.

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  • I am excited for it, too. Science Fiction becomes Science reality so quickly nowadays. With the goal to have a permanent outpost on the moon... Well, my interest is piqued.
  • Where did you hear about a permanent outpost on the moon?! That would be so awesome, and awfully expensive. Unless... Mr Spock lends a hand :)
  • Well the moon is definitely expensive. In fact, it's so expensive that, with cutbacks on funding, NASA is having to delay plans to get back to the moon. Luckily, we have the LRO and the LCROSS, the first of which is mapping the moon, and the second will send and impact vehicle to test for water at the poles of the moon (I think it will impact the northern pole). Here is an article regarding making a permanent outpost on the moon by 2024. I think we are already off schedule for it: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/05/m...
  • I knew about the north pole impact mission, but the moon base is soo
    cool. It almost feels as if NASA is adament at making arthur c
    clarke's dream a reality.

    I wonder why space exploration is done by each country by itself?! I
    hope that in my lifetime I will get to see an united federation of
    space exploration (FOSE) ;)
  • I couldn't agree more. Frankly, stuff having to do with the space exploration gives me chills. Maybe someday, we can harness dark matter to fold space (like in Frank Herbert's Dune) and travel wherever, instantly...

    I think we already are united in space exploration, at least as far as the International Space Station is concerned. Such cooperation should definitely be expanded to the moon, Mars, and hopefully beyond.
  • The ISS is more a result of others unwilling to launch their own
    transport system than any coming together of nations.

    However, it's good that there is not much duplication in our
    exploration of the moon. For instance India and china are mapping the
    unexplored sections of the moon by orbiters instead of trying to land
    there.
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