NASA Will Start Construction On Lunar Space Station In 2019

tech times ^ | 20 April 2018, 3:36 pm EDT | By Jacob Elyachar Tech Times

[OrioleFan]

I hope it’s not another convertible.

[Brilliant]

“There are no Muslims on the moon.”

I would be happy to put all of them on the moon.

[kosciusko51]

That policy has changed since the Moslem-in-chief was removed from office.

[central_va]

[dangus]

The days of the $700 billion space program are over. Free Enterprise has taught it can be done on the cheap.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. NASA's picking a contractor? For a spacecraft for 2019? Gosh, the suspense will be killin' us until then. Will it be the ever-more-economical SpaceX, or will it be the ever-more-pork-barrelly legacy companies favored by an Alabama Senator who has the final word?

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, Thanks fieldmarshaldj. [blush]

[Axenolith]

Skylab was the kind of thing it would have been worth raising merely because it’s a lot of “stuff” up out of the bottom of the well.

One day someone will make dough collecting the orbiting junk up there and opening “Cletus’ used spacecraft parts and scrap”. The process will probably move a lot faster once we get a brewery at a Lagrange point...