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European rocket scientists pledge to make first private Moon landing in 2018
The Telegraph ^ | 19 MARCH 2017 • 4:57PM | Sarah Knapton, science editor

Posted on 03/19/2017 4:17:19 PM PDT by COBOL2Java


Mission to the Moon: two rovers could be the first to land on the moon for 46 years CREDIT: PTSCIENTISTS


The first private Moon landing could be made by a group of European scientists next year.

A group of rocket engineers called PTScientists (Part-time Scientists), has built a landing module and two rovers, which are expected to launch in 2018 on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The landing module will be programmed to touch down in the Taurus-Littrow valley, around two miles from the site of the final Apollo 17 mission.


The spacecraft will land two miles from the Apollo 17 site then rovers will be deployed to track down Nasa's moon buggy CREDIT: PTSCIENTISTS

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 03/19/2017 4:17:19 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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will the muslim savages help since obama sed they have contributed to the world far more than we know


2 posted on 03/19/2017 4:20:26 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: COBOL2Java

I hope they better luck than ESA, who bounced a lander off a comet
and crash landed another lander on Mars.


3 posted on 03/19/2017 4:24:34 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: ronnie raygun

If the rover finds the moon-buggy will the dirt-bags that question the moon landings apologize?


4 posted on 03/19/2017 4:27:12 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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will the muslim savages help since obama sed they have contributed to the world far more than we know

Who knows? It's where their god lives.

5 posted on 03/19/2017 4:27:44 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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Establish new mecca on the moon. Send all of the muslims there.


6 posted on 03/19/2017 4:27:54 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: Fai Mao

How much is this supposed to cost the US in direct subsidies, international welfare gifts and other parasite costs?


7 posted on 03/19/2017 4:28:08 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: COBOL2Java

WALL·E


8 posted on 03/19/2017 4:28:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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The U.S. could have colonized the stars if we hadn’t had to support the entire world.


9 posted on 03/19/2017 4:29:22 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Fai Mao
If the rover finds the moon-buggy will the dirt-bags that question the moon landings apologize?

The chances are probably about as great as DiFi apologizing to Trump.

10 posted on 03/19/2017 4:29:31 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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How much is this supposed to cost the US in direct subsidies, international welfare gifts and other parasite costs?

Come again?

11 posted on 03/19/2017 4:30:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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will the muslim savages help since obama sed they have contributed to the world far more than we know

Maybe, I mean its not like it’s rocket science or anything.


12 posted on 03/19/2017 4:32:00 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: COBOL2Java

Been paying any attention at all over the last 50 odd years?

Nothing gets done in Europe without it costing the US tax payers.


13 posted on 03/19/2017 4:32:55 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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Been paying any attention at all over the last 50 odd years?

Nothing gets done in Europe without it costing the US tax payers.

Been paying attention to the first sentence? This is not a government effort.

14 posted on 03/19/2017 4:34:17 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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will the muslim savages help since obama sed they have contributed to the world far more than we know
Who knows? It’s where their god lives.
...
Thread winner...good one.


15 posted on 03/19/2017 4:36:21 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Except that SpaceX is an American company.


16 posted on 03/19/2017 4:38:16 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Except that SpaceX is an American company.

Cooperative effort. The Alina landing module is built by an international team based in Berlin:


17 posted on 03/19/2017 4:44:55 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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49 years after the Great America sent two men.


18 posted on 03/19/2017 5:03:23 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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I doubt it. The flag and rover are visible to the lunar orbiter:

https://astrobob.areavoices.com/2012/07/28/can-you-see-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-yes/

And I think telescopes can see the large reflector astronauts installed there. Conspiracy nuts don't care.

19 posted on 03/19/2017 5:04:24 PM PDT by lacrew
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I thought americas indian tribes consider the moon sacred, so can’t really go there because diversity


20 posted on 03/19/2017 5:09:05 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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