Posted on 12/09/2017 8:45:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
A German company aiming to send robotic rovers on the first mission to return to the last Apollo moon landing site has pledged to respect and protect the historic artifacts present there.
PTScientists announced it has entered a partnership with For All Moonkind, an organization that is advocating for the preservation of human heritage in space. The news of the partnership was timed to mark the 45th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 17 mission today (Dec. 7).
"Apollo 17 marked the end of one chapter of exploration, but as we enter a new era of private exploration I want to create a new 'Apollo moment' to inspire a new generation of explorers, engineers and scientists," Robert Boehme, founder and CEO of PTScientists, said in a statement. "We want to visit the Apollo 17 site, not just to celebrate human achievement, but also to continue scientific learning."
For its first lunar mission, dubbed "Mission to the Moon," PTScientists aims to send two of its Audi-sponsored Lunar Quattro rovers to the moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley. One of the rovers will be used to approach the site of the Apollo 17 lunar roving vehicle. PTScientists plans to capture high-definition imagery of the Apollo 17 lunar rover, providing a first close-up look at how the moon buggy has fared since it was left on the surface by Harrison Schmitt and the late Eugene Cernan in 1972. "Mission to the Moon" is slated to launch in 2019, 50 years after the first moon landing by the Apollo 11 crew.
The company announced in November 2016 it had signed a launch contract with Spaceflight Industries, a broker for secondary payloads on a number of launch vehicles.
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“an organization that is advocating for the preservation of human heritage in space.”
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Great idea, a lot of times we didn’t appreciate vestiges of our past until after they were gone. Of course, we don’t need to worry too much about weather and rust taking it’s toll in this case.
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There used to be a moon-landing truther on FR who would pollute most spaceflight threads with “it’s all fake” posts.
He was good for a laugh, so in his spirit I will offer that if this German robot-lander team sends any moon photos, they will come from “the classified NASA TV studio”, and will prove the Germans are also part of the “massive secrit conspiracy. “
I guess you cannot accuse PTScientists of wasting money on needless marketing. How's that for a catchy project name?
Maybe it lost something on translation
Heck, in German it be all one word.
to all the fakers i always ask one question: WHY did the Soviets Never, EVER say it was fake?
then the Chinese moon lander Rabbit killed it for all time
Moon Hoax Theory dead - killed by rabbit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IncRZ9BiE
just micro meteorites
That’s a nice video. Thanks
“just micro meteorites”
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We’re all dust in the solar wind.
lotta truth in that 9mins
Ha ha. Gotta find them before you can damage them. Just searching searching searching.
Sheila Jackson Lee has demanded that the company not disturb the American flag that Neil Armstrong planted on Mars.
It’s be kind of funny to photoshop an image of the car up on jacks and the parts stripped off it.
It's probably been stolen by scrappers......
I suspect that even this will not convince moon landing deniers. The LRM should have, but it became "another NASA deception" in spite of the tonnes of the extremely difficult (if not impossible) to fake imagery collected.
They are stuck on conspiracy theories in their mythopoeic, benighted world.
“It’s be kind of funny to photoshop an image of the car up on jacks and the parts stripped off it.”
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Heh. Like Detroit on the moon!
their stooopid is strong.
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