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Rumor Has It We're Sending Humans Beyond The Moon
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| Dina Spector
Posted on 11/08/2012 2:52:51 PM PST by blam
Rumor Has It We're Sending Humans Beyond The Moon
Dina Spector
Nov. 8, 2012, 3:55 PM
NASA. The Orion capsule will carry astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before
President Barack Obama is still in power, which is good news for NASA, whose budget, strategy and missions may have been revised under defeated Republication presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Space policy expert John Logsdon told Space.com's Mike Wall that plans to send humans to the far side of the moon have already been approved by the Obama administration, but were kept hush-hush in case Romney won Tuesday night's election.
The plan involves establishing a manned outpost about 38,000 miles from the moon in an area known as the Earth-moon libration point 2, or EML-2. This is a gravitationally stable spot, making it possible to "park" a spacecraft there, explains Wall. The station would service as a holding pen for astronauts so they could eventually do other things in space, like land on an asteroid (planned for 2025) or visit Mars (planned for the mid-2030s).
Mumblings of NASA's plans to send astronauts beyond the moon were reported back in September by the Orlando Sentinel's Mark K. Matthews when NASA Chief Charlie Bolden outlined the ambitious proposal to the White House.
In the meantime, a very powerful rocket called the Space Launch System and a space capsule are being developed so that NASA can theoretically begin construction on the outpost by 2021.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; eml2; moon; nasa; space
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posted on
11/08/2012 2:52:53 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Li`bra´tion point` (lî`brā´shŭn point`) n. 1. any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body
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posted on
11/08/2012 2:56:25 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
President Barack Obama is still in power, which is good news for NASA, The author's mind is apparently beyond the Moon ...
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posted on
11/08/2012 2:56:32 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: blam
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posted on
11/08/2012 2:57:36 PM PST
by
opticks
To: blam
The plan involves establishing a manned outpost about 38,000 miles from the moon in an area known as the Earth-moon libration point 2, or EML-2.
Its not all that hush hush because I read about this weeks ago right here at FR.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:00:43 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: blam
Good. Start with space cadets like Sheila Jackson Lee and Dennis
Kookcinich.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:02:15 PM PST
by
rfp1234
To: blam
Man has already visited Mars and been in underground dwellings there (if you watch TV and believe those shows) .Inside a top secret building in El Segundo, CA, you can .’jump’ from the 8th floor and teleport yourself to Mars. I saw it on TV!!!
To: blam
Cool. I think Obama could really show his strong leadership skills if he personally led this space mission to the outer solar system.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:04:08 PM PST
by
Boogieman
To: blam
From space.com (high school students send Barry to the edge of space.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:05:21 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
To: blam
Nah.. Obama will insist they use wind power to get there.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:07:20 PM PST
by
trublu
To: blam
Can we load up Obama, Holder, Jarret, and all their minions and send them to the far side of the moon?
And does that count toward NASA's prime mission of "Muslim Outreach"?
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:10:04 PM PST
by
backwoods-engineer
("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
To: blam
So that's BO's plan to deal with his political opponents!
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:13:17 PM PST
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: blam
Now obama just wants to load it with some conservative "astronauts."
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:14:15 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: blam
I was surprised to hear 2 rocket engine tests at Stennis today. Something I hadn’t heard in years.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:16:02 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: blam
Why is NASA reaching to the other side of the moon... Are there muslims over there to outreach to?
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:20:49 PM PST
by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
To: blam
When did they change the name? It used to be LaGrange points.
Do I need to change my screen name?
L.P.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:21:31 PM PST
by
lagrange point1
(Space is no longer the final frontier)
To: blam
Nasa is wanting 20 years to design a capsule. It only took them 8 years for the entire moon program. We aren’t going anywhere.
To: blam
There’s a vacation the obummers can take.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:29:35 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: blam
I have friends at NASA and obama has stopped almost anything of real value to manned flight. This is nothing but BS... that is all obama and his court are... BS. He is defacto king so stop calling it his administration... jarrett and others serve the king in his court.
LLS
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:29:42 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(I AM JOHN GALT)
To: blam
By the way, if I remember my Celestial Mechanics classes, only L4 and L5 are truly “stable”. The others are “meta-stable”, which means that they are stable in two dimensions only. L4 and L5 are stable in three dimensions.
L.P.
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posted on
11/08/2012 3:31:07 PM PST
by
lagrange point1
(Space is no longer the final frontier)
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