Posted on 11/29/2022 7:29:23 PM PST by bitt
SpaceX and Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk said recently that the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission was an “anomalous situation.”
What Happened: “The fact that we were able to go to the Moon in '69 was such an anomalous situation, it was like reaching into the future and bringing the technology forward,” said Musk on the "Full Send" podcast.
The landings, which saw Neil Armstrong become the first human to step on the lunar surface, were “not the natural pace of technology development,” according to the SpaceX founder.
“It’s just that the United States just collectively decided that this has got to be done,” Musk said, referring to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Why It Matters: Musk agreed with the podcast hosts that it was “weird” that the U.S. had not returned to the Moon’s surface since 1972.
"We’ll go to the Moon, SpaceX has an asset contract to take astronauts to the Moon," Musk said, adding that SpaceX’s super-heavy-lift launch vehicle Starship is “gigantic compared to anything that’s been done before.”
“It’s capable of putting 100 tons of payload on the Moon. You could build a Moon base with a Starship.”
Musk said, “We could go way beyond what was done with the Apollo program, where they had a small lander.”
SpaceX would take astronauts to the Moon before it took them to Mars, the billionaire entrepreneur said.
"I think we should build a city on the Moon and on Mars."
A rat done bit my sister Nell with whitey on the moon
her face and arms began to swell and whitey is on the moon
I can’t pay no doctor bills but whitey is on the moon
ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still with whitey on the moon ya know?
the man just upped my rent last night cause whitey is on the moon
no hot water, no toilets, no lights but whitey is on the moon
I wonder why he’s uppin’ me? cause whitey is on the moon
well I was givin’ him 50 dollars a week and now whitey is on the moon
“That makes the space program at the time all the more amazing.”
Nobody back then knew anything any better than ‘state of the art’ in 1969. Who knew how fast it would advance or how far ?
The 1985 Back to the Future movie saw the future ... Fax machines on every corner — just like phone booths at the time !!
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