Posted on 10/05/2017 8:29:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Vice President Pence said Thursday that the United States would regain a leadership role in human space flight by embarking on a return mission to the moon, building the foundation to go to Mars.
Pence offered no specific timeline. Speaking before a group of cabinet members and the chief executives of several top space companies, he said the moon would be a “steppingstone, a training ground” that would eventually propel humanity deeper into the cosmos in partnership with the growing commercial space industry.
While he called for a renewed emphasis on exploration, he also said the council, designed to help guide U.S. policy in space, would need to create a more robust national security response to advances made by Russia and China in developing “jamming and hacking” capabilities that can “cripple” military and intelligence satellites.
Pence’s call to return to the moon was the official declaration of a much-discussed goal of the Trump administration. Its nominee to take over NASA has advocated returning to the moon. And NASA has said it would solicit proposals from industry to develop landers that could take cargo and experiments to the lunar surface by as soon as next year.
It also marked a reversal from plans pushed by the Obama administration. In 2010, Obama famously said of the moon that “we’ve been there before” and that NASA should instead focus on reaching an asteroid and Mars.
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Sure. No problem. Just print more money.
Not to worry. All the cheese we bring back from up there will more than pay for it.
Ping.
The Compost promulgating a baseless story. Why? Because that is what the Compost does. Still ordering from Amazon?
Sounds great...I support this....right after a wall is done, repeal on Obamacare, a HUGE tax cut, and the special prosecutor looks into Hillary’s bribery scheme, influence peddling, foreign collusion, and illegal handling of classified documents.
First things first.
What can the moon offer to mining companies?
Titanium
Platinoids
Helium 3
They will not do this is my prediction. JFK is long gone and the country has no reason to pursue such a goal. All the technology the moon landing has ushered in is continuing and probably nothing will be gained from another. IMHO.....
Maybe the President suggested this as a means of getting American kids interested in science and math.
I leave the money issue out of this, intentionally. :)
Helium 3? They have found it on the Moon?
The moon is the obvious stepping off point for the other planets in the Solar System.
My thoughts as well, how do we pay for this?
For the few people who don’t hate Elon Musk around here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxjGKm5-1eM&feature=youtu.be
So what does that mean and why ought it to be valid, important?
Humans to the Moon and Mars?
Forget that noise.
NASA should massively increase the R&D budget for space robots and send increasingly sophisticated new robots to the Moon and Mars every 10 years.
If humans want to go to the Moon and Mars, they should do it with commercial or philanthropic funding, not with taxpayer money.
Besides Mars and various asteroids, it's unlikely that man will be going anywhere else for many centuries.
Venus? Its atmospheric pressure is 90 times Earth's pressure. Its surface temperature is over 800 degrees F.
Jupiter? A gas planet. Jupiter's moons? Almost all of them pass through Jupiter's lethal radiation belt. And, Jupiter's intense gravity deforms the surface of all of its moons, which means that any man-made structures on, or below, those moon surfaces will be degraded by constant geological stress.
Many of the old Sci-Fi movies predicted we would have cities in the clouds and flying cars by now....Hard to reach for the stars when you pay Democrats to feed, breed and vote.
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