Posted on 07/09/2021 12:11:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Now get going on those moon buggies and Eagle transports.
Personally I think an orbiting station around the moon just uses funds and time that should go to a moon station on the surface of the moon. Why? Working out the necessities of a moon station on the moon will be a first step and a lessons-learned process for other off-planet stations on other planets and/or their moons. I think it would a folly of our space exploration processes to NOT do a surface station on the moon before planning a surface station somewhere else in the solar system.
Ping.
Will the outpost be based on Moonbase Alpha from SPACE: 1999?
Thanks.
“Last man on the moon was almost fifty years ago—and they still haven’t been able to replicate it since...” ....”I call it “the dog ate my homework” agency. They are experts at making excuses and finding someone else to blame.” “
Only partially NASA’ fault. Half the blame goes to Presidents and Congress who have not put their political weight and willingness to fund new ventures to the moon, with no political sense of “national urgency”, unlike the initial moon ventures and the space shuttle programs.
The NASA planning documents are one half NASA science and one half what they think they can get Presidential and Congress support for. The rest is yes as good, or not as good, as NASA ought to be able to do.
The lander and rover projects for mars have been rather cost-effective for the amount of science and data acquired from them, as well as lessons learned.
But if we do not first establish a moon outpost, a human outpost on Mars will be like trying to go to sixth grade skipping grades one to five when nothing in an intelligence or scholastic test says you are ready. To me an outpost on the moon is like learning to walk before you can run, in the sense of off-world surface outposts.
At that price it better include a 3 car garage and a pool. And at least a putting green.
I imagine the cost of the outpost will be insignificant compared to the shipping fees.
NASA long ago evolved into a Congressional spoils jobs program.
“NASA long ago evolved into a Congressional spoils jobs program.”
Every federal agency is subject to that phenomena; it’s survival by the budget and Congress is the main gate-keeper on the budget.
For “science” justification we could say that ought to have not happened to NASA, but look at the DOD, it long ago learned that Congress and the Presidents, not the DOD, have the final say on what is and is not our military priorities “in our national interest”. In as much as the DOD cannot escape that, how could a “science” agency like NASA?
Yes I know !
All NASA talks about is the first woman on the moon or the first dead person on the moon with all the diversity
will the AI be named “Hal”?
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