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re: Do you think NASA could put another man on the moon in a 7 year timeframe?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:44 pm to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:44 pm to NYNolaguy1
Not since Kubrick died
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Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:47 pm to Mo Jeaux
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This country won't do it again (or any other significant space mission). We're a tired country now more obsessed with comfort and "diversity".
If China gets their asses on the Moon, you can bet we'll be on Mars within the decade. The Space Race is a glorified dick measuring contest. If you turned Earth into the size of a basketball, relatively speaking the Moon would be 30 feet across the room and be the size of an orange. Now since 1972, do you know how far humans have gone from that basketball? 3/8 of an inch. So America is sitting pretty comfortably with a 30 inch long slong compared to everyone else's micropenis at 3/8 of an inch. Nothing would thrill me more than for China to land on the Moon.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:48 pm to meeple
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Said vehicle Core Stage is actually being produced at Michoud. There are giant barrel sections of the launch vehicle laying about the factory floor awaiting assembly, and the crew capsule integration is underway. We're sending said vehicles to the moon in 2018, actually. Although it will be unmanned.
Are saying SLS will launch in 2018 to the moon? I don’t think that’s accurate.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:48 pm to CorporateTiger
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Just to be clear, NASA was verifying much of the calculus required for the original moon landing by hand. The ease of modeling this stuff on a computer would dramatically reduce the planning.
Additionally we have already begun test flights on a the Mars vehicle. So we have rockets that we can use.
I think the advances in technology would allow us to do it in less than seven years, maybe three. But new regulations, OSHA, environmental, and other factors would cost us another year and a half.
Net... we could do it in 4.5 years
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:49 pm to Milk
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They did have computers then, not what we have now. There is no math equation in a computer that man did not master. We have been to the moon. Its very expensive to land and take back off from. We did it to show up the USSR. If there was something on the moon worth retrieving or studying we would have been back by now. A geologist can only look at a rock for so long. To go back to the moon just to do it would be a waste of money.
Ignorance. Tons of stuff to mine up there, and would make a great base for asteroid mining. There are near Earth asteroids that are worth a trillion dollars a piece with the material in them. Plus it would be far cheaper to launch from the Moon than it would be from Earth to go to Mars.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:51 pm to SJS101
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I'm not a tinfoil hat kinda guy, but the evidence is WAY more compelling that the moon landing was faked. Take out the deadly radiation factor and look at the political, national security, and technological angles at the time plus the fact that our Govt is completely full of shite and it's hard to be completely convinced we truly landed on the moon. I'll kindly take my downvotes now.
I hate to break it to you: you're a tinfoil hat kind of guy. Do you really think that Russia and China wouldn't have debunked this by now?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:55 pm to NYNolaguy1
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I wonder how many people realize we've been to the moon more then once...like 7 times with people.
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Might want to check your math there. Apollo13 never made it to the moon. We have been 6 times.
Depends on how you look at it, and how you define "to the Moon".
Including Apollo 8, Apollo 10 and Apollo 13, we have been "to the Moon" nine times. Does lunar orbit count? I suppose that can be debated.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 2:59 pm to NYNolaguy1
Go there and do what? Earth is the premier environment for humans. Any other rock would require us to ship supplies there. We need to just take care of our own home, and improve our space mapping and drone tech. If we need to seed another planet, we can just send our DNA.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 3:01 pm to NYNolaguy1
A better question is can NASA put Tchump on the moon permanently in the next 3 months?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 3:04 pm to SJS101
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I'm not a tinfoil hat kinda guy, but the evidence is WAY more compelling that the moon landing was faked. Take out the deadly radiation factor and look at the political, national security, and technological angles at the time plus the fact that our Govt is completely full of shite and it's hard to be completely convinced we truly landed on the moon
You sound like an intelligent person, but you are just wrong here. And to rank tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, the only one more wacko than not believing in the moon landings is to believe in a flat earth.
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the evidence is WAY more compelling that the moon landing was faked
It simply is not. You need to try opening your mind. The Van Allen Radiation Belt "problem" that is used by conspiracy theorists to discount the Lunar Landings are all highly overplayed by them.
The Lunar landings did happen, and have been independently verified by other nations with no reason to give the US credit for "faking them".
Every single "problem" that the conspiracy folks have identified can be so easily explained, if one has an open mind. The "evidence" you speak of is so easily debunked. Its hard to believe you people really exist.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 3:06 pm to SJS101
It would have been harder to fake the moon landing back then compared to actually just going there
Posted on 3/14/18 at 3:09 pm to NYNolaguy1
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7 year timeframe
If he doesn't have to arrive breathing or in one piece, we could do it in a month.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 3:45 pm to AUCE05
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Go there and do what? Earth is the premier environment for humans. Any other rock would require us to ship supplies there. We need to just take care of our own home, and improve our space mapping and drone tech. If we need to seed another planet, we can just send our DNA.
Every god damn generation will use this excuse to not advance ourselves as a species. We would have never made it out of the cave if our ancestors said "we have enough problems in the cave to worry about planting wheat." Some variation of Interstellar is inevitable and a statistical certainty. If we remain stagnant, we will die. The biggest enemy is complacency and the status quo. We must aim for the stars and build infrastructure for a prosperous tomorrow.
One of the greatest quotes of al time by Edward Murrow:
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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
This post was edited on 3/14/18 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 3/14/18 at 4:08 pm to OMLandshark
The public would get more excited about space travel if we stopped spending their money on remote control toys to drive around mars and take boring pictures.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 4:51 pm to OMLandshark
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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
Excellent quote!
Posted on 3/14/18 at 5:19 pm to NYNolaguy1
quote:we will need China or Russia to ramp up their space program to get ours in gear. We pumped in the money and technology not because we thought it was cool, but because we were at war with the USSR. We had to control the high ground.
For the unawares, JFK called for the US to put a man on the moon in 1962. Apollo 11 happened in 1969. Personally I doubt NASA could do it again within the same timeframe
Posted on 3/14/18 at 5:39 pm to NYNolaguy1
Could we? Possibly with enough resources out into it. The question is why? What do we get out of it? Wouldn’t a far better investment be an unmanned mission to explore the oceans of Europa? That would truly be breaking new ground/pushing the frontiers of exploration.
Posted on 3/14/18 at 5:43 pm to NYNolaguy1
Another?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 5:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:Whatbis your obsession with unmanned missions?
What do we get out of it? Wouldn’t a far better investment be an unmanned mission to explore the oceans of Europa?
Posted on 3/14/18 at 6:31 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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Whatbis your obsession with unmanned missions?
They make far, far more sense?
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