Posted on 05/24/2013 4:10:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
We had four witnesses with maybe 150 to 200 years of combined space experience appearing before the subcommittee on space on Tuesday (May 21), each with a plan.
- Louis Friedman, executive director emeritus of The Planetary Society (who co-led the co-leader of the Keck Institute for Space Studies Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study): Do the asteroid mission proposed by NASA. It will launch four to five years from now. If done properly, it would be a great opportunity for humans to explore as well as for commercial opportunities in mining.
- Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the NASA-funded Lunar and Planetary Institute: Return to the moon. It’s close, so close to Earth that we can operate rovers by remote control. It’s a good spot to learn more about the solar system, and it provides practice for us in living off the resources of the land as it has water — a tool for life support and energy.
- Steve Squyres, Cornell University planetary scientist renowned for his Mars rover research: Go to cislunar space, the area close to the moon. It’s an easily accessible spot in a restricted budget environment. Thinking beyond that is not realistic in the current budget environment.
- Douglas Cooke, NASA’s former associate administrator for the exploration systems mission directorate: Re-establish lunar exploration. The asteroid mission would not connect well with the long-term strategy, but the lunar surface would as (like Mars) it is a hostile environment suitable for testing planetary exploration technologies.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
when we leave we will take the technology with us
those left behind will quickly end up in the stone age
when we fly away we should not look back
perhaps someday we can return to see if things have improved
perhaps that is already happening
Perhaps it has already happened.... It would explain UFOs...
could be the reason UFOs dont contact us directly
they are embarrassed to admit we are cousins
can you blame them
as a species, our stupid is on full display to the universe
“Queen of Outer Space”
One of my all-time favorite movies!
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