This Is NASA's Plan to Land Astronauts on the Moon in 2028 with Commercial Vehicles

www.space.com ^ | 02/15/2019 | By Tariq Malik

[Red Badger]

VIDEOS AT LINK.....................

[buckalfa]

Cannot they just pay for passage on a Chinese moon liner? /s

[budj]

Sorry, NASA, you'll have to take a train.

[Leaning Right]

I guess I’ll get slammed for saying this. But this whole plan will be funded by borrowed money. And there will most probably be no return on that money. it’s not like the moon is filled with oil.

And if you want to develop new technology, do it right here on earth. No need to test it on the moon.

So yeah, this might be a good place to trim the federal budget.

[jmcenanly]

I assume that it won't be Pan-Am.

[Red Badger]

Virgin Galactic........................

[Red Badger]

And there will most probably be no return on that money. it’s not like the moon is filled with oil.

Not oil, He3.....................

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/408558/mining-the-moon/

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[lurk]

Will the astronauts be stranded there when the New Green Deal comes?

[Red Badger]

Of course not!

They can use windmills.................

[COBOL2Java]

Winnebago, pick up the white courtesy phone...

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[SkyDancer]

Commercial vehicles? Like the Seattle S.L.U.T (South Lake Union Transit) will take me there?

I wonder what they were thinking when they came up with that name not realizing the initials. Liberals.

[Red Badger]

Frisco Area Rapid Transit.................

[SkyDancer]

Now there’s one; do they have the T-shirt? Ours says” I Rode The SLUT.”

[Mr. K]

Boy is that narrow minded. The value we got for the original moon landings is far more than the cost of them.

We can’t ‘just invent things here’ because you never know what you are going to need to invent until you try to do something new and difficult.

[usmcobra]

Wrong spaceship.

Pan-am flew only to low earth orbit and the space wheel...

[BipolarBob]

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/176625-60000-miles-up-geostationary-space-elevator-could-be-built-by-2035-says-new-study

[MarchonDC09122009]

Awesome 2001 Space Odessey Moon lander!

[darth]

The real value of Luna is enormous. Primary constituents are iron, aluminum, titanium, and silica.

Those materials can be used to create habitats, factories, mining/smelting equipment, etc.

Using a mag lev train track, you can launch payloads into Lunar escape orbits, perhaps to L5. Basically, an electric railroad that reaches 3 km/sec.

Using those materials you can build rotating space habitats a la O’Neill that could house billions of workers.

The near Earth asteroids have all the other elements needed for a space based civilization such as water and carbon compounds.

The only barrier to colonizing/industrializing space is financial. To get a space based civilization to the point of independence will cost trillions...but we can do it.

The financial benefits are orders of magnitude larger than the investment. There is an entire Solar System of raw materials out there waiting for us.

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