In five years?
In five years?
Ping.
A moon base would make sense, simply landing and returning does not. Imagine the benefit of a manufacturing base, where the cost of lift-off is a fraction what it is on Earth.
Lucy and the football ;-)
Mark the date on your calendar, folks!
Why?
Wow. Going to the moon is more feasible than building a bullet train in California.
Good luck with that. The guys that pulled this off last time or either too old or too dead, now. And they were too damned smart, too. Not interested in a Gov't job(s) - but in a vision and willingness to beat the hell out the the Russians - at all costs, both to themselves and their families.
Since we did this 50 years ago, and technology has greatly advanced since then, shouldn’t this be a simple job, to return to the moon? They really need many years of prep time to do this?
Nuts. How about cutting the debt, deficit, .gov. Get rid of restrictions on importing prescription drugs, stop illegal aliens, crack down on employers who hire illegals, e verify, visa overstays, build the wall, etc
That’s quite a reduction in goals. Trump claimed we’d put men on Mars by the end of his administration.
-PJ
The astronauts who went to the moon are getting pretty old. What if they don’t want to return to the moon?
Too soon, I think. I have not seen much of any next moon landing program made public. What little has been publicly announced does not seem to me like everything would be in place - built & tested - in five years time. Nothing would be worse than a “rush to risk” - again.
Just less than a year ago NASA was speaking of a a timeline than had the next moon landing mission as 11 years away.
https://www.space.com/41954-nasa-moon-mission-bigger-scale-than-apollo.html
Love this quote...
“if NASA is not currently capable of landing American astronauts on the moon in five years, we need to change the organization, not the mission.”
Luv it! Absolutely!