Posted on 01/07/2007 10:20:45 AM PST by KevinDavis
A spacecraft approaches the lunar pole, spits out a pod from which sprout several tubular arms it uses to bury itself in the soil, where it begins growing plants in preparation for man's return to the moon.
It's science, for sure, but not fiction. The University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center is pushing such a plan in a demanding competitive bid-and-review process for NASA's proposed extended manned lunar mission by 2020, the date President Bush set in his 2005 space goals proposal.
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This project could be done right away. No reason to wait until 2014 or 2020. It could be launched in 2007 and every year from now on. This would be good agricultural science. China would be very interested.
Valley Forge.
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