Russia Enters 'Space Race' To Build Moon Base

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-31-2007 | Graeme Baker

[Sybeck1]

Uranus goes to the Klingons of course.

[Fitzcarraldo]

[13Sisters76]

heh heh..I just love when the Russkies pour more money into nonsense like this, rather than building their country into a major power.

[Plains Drifter]

Dragnet, I agree with you 100%. I’ve thought the same as you for years. What a waste, we gave away our lead and if the Russians do this it’ll hurt us militarily. All we’ve got to show for getting to the moon first when we did is three trillion in welfare programs and a fleet of used up shuttles. If we would have stayed on track could you imagine what we could have achieved for mankind?

[Fitzcarraldo]

if the Russians do this it’ll hurt us militarily.

Don't worry, let them eat moon dust. It won't affect us militarily in the least. We can dispatch any Lunar target without having a Lunar base ourselves.

[RichInOC]

VLAD: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!!
VLAD: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
VLAD: HA HA HA HA....

[Fitzcarraldo]

[dragnet2]

Dragnet, I agree with you 100%. I’ve thought the same as you for years. What a waste, we gave away our lead and if the Russians do this it’ll hurt us militarily. All we’ve got to show for getting to the moon first when we did is three trillion in welfare programs and a fleet of used up shuttles. If we would have stayed on track could you imagine what we could have achieved for mankind?

It's a shame when I think of the discoveries, and research...We could have put a lunar based observatory at the site, developed solar power on the surface etc etc. We accomplished so little with so much effort.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Were doing it now,

Here is the proof...........

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0708/28ares1x/

[SunkenCiv]

But first, Russia plans to reintegrate the former SSRs, sell boatloads of arms to various Latin American dictators, sell nukes and missiles to Iran, oppose the US everywhere in the world...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sputnik was a good wake-up call

Yeah...but lately, it seems as if someone rolled over and punched the snooze button.

[free_life]

Freelife plans to build moon base by 2025. LOL

[plain talk]

I like the way ABC News described it "The Russian space agency announced a plan to send a man to the moon by 2025, to establish a permanent base there a few years later, and possibly even send a man to Mars by 2035, in an aggressive plan reminiscent of the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. "

Aggressive? Kennedy announced in the early 1960s and we did it by 1969. They announce in 2007 and plan to do it by 2025 and ABC News calls it "aggressive". LOL! Perhaps it is aggressive for them.

[GeronL]

but Jupiter represents most of the free mass of the solar system, and I own it

[GeronL]

He3 is going to be very big someday