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Could Trump take us back to the moon?
NBC news ^ | 17 Feb2017 | Alyssa Newcomb

Posted on 02/18/2017 6:09:44 PM PST by HLPhat

President Trump has said he wants to "unlock the mysteries of space" and "focus on stretching the envelope of space exploration."

He may now have the chance to send astronauts to orbit the moon, a mission that carries significant risk — but which, if executed smoothly, could bring huge benefits to accelerating future missions to deep space...

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: maga; moon; trump
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This!

Apollo-Soyuz-China....

1 posted on 02/18/2017 6:09:44 PM PST by HLPhat
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To: HLPhat

Put McLame and Grahamnesty on the first flight and make it ONE WAY!!


2 posted on 02/18/2017 6:14:34 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: HLPhat

We first landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. That’s nearly a half century ago.

We should have had a Moon base by now.

Moon base, hell. We should have had a Mars base.


3 posted on 02/18/2017 6:17:36 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: MagUSNRET

Send CNN, Cher, Barbara Streisand, Debra Messing, Mark Ruffalo, Meathead, and the rest of the left to the moon I will pay for the blankies and complementary peanuts


4 posted on 02/18/2017 6:17:44 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Could Trump take us back to the moon?

Not in 8 years. Not the way NASA moves.

5 posted on 02/18/2017 6:19:02 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: EveningStar

We went from space exploration to celebrating diversity. You can’t do both.


6 posted on 02/18/2017 6:19:28 PM PST by brucedickinson
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To: Sarah Barracuda; MagUSNRET

With all due respect, you folks just aren’t thinking creatively enough.

Those folks are too important to be landing on some heavenly body like the Moon or even Mars.

I say we should reserve the most important heavenly body in our solar system.

As prestigious as they are, I recommend they settle the Sun for us.


7 posted on 02/18/2017 6:21:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: brucedickinson

Liberals only want to moon Trump.


8 posted on 02/18/2017 6:23:27 PM PST by DazedVet (Self esteem cannot be taught in school but comes from actual achievement.)
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To: EveningStar

Much as I would like to ship some of my adult children to Mars ... yes, I’m talking about you, Bill ... what’s the cost/benefit? If we could legally ship slacker young adults to the far reaches, Nevada is a lot cheaper than Mars.


9 posted on 02/18/2017 6:24:26 PM PST by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: HLPhat

Bammy canceled the space program because it was a symbol of America’s greatness, and the media deliberately and intentionally suppressed that fact.

Trump will lead the country back to greatness.


10 posted on 02/18/2017 6:34:28 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: HLPhat

Mars. We should be going to Mars. The titan rocket was built to go to Mars.


11 posted on 02/18/2017 6:36:42 PM PST by Castigar
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Maybe to survey the best locations for robotic craft to start mining the inches deep Tritium that covers the Moon. Once nuclear fusion is a reliable reality the Moon has thousands of years of “fuel”.


12 posted on 02/18/2017 6:42:33 PM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: HLPhat

How important is it to go back to the moon? More important than making America energy independent? I don’t think so.


13 posted on 02/18/2017 7:11:00 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: HLPhat

14 posted on 02/18/2017 7:12:50 PM PST by Rastus
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To: shibumi; Windflier

Never mind that...can he take us to the edge of the Earth??


15 posted on 02/18/2017 7:17:36 PM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: brucedickinson

Send all the liberals to the moon.


16 posted on 02/18/2017 7:18:17 PM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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Much as I would like to ship some of my adult children to Mars ... yes, I’m talking about you, Bill

ruhroh Bill, mama ain't happy, and that's not usually a good thing

17 posted on 02/18/2017 7:22:42 PM PST by tomkat
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To: 353FMG

How important is it to go back to the moon? More important than making America energy independent? I don’t think so.

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You’re right. The U.S. has enough potential energy reserves to make us, not only energy independent but to make us an energy exporter.

Finish dismantling the E.P.A. and it will happen.


18 posted on 02/18/2017 7:33:24 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: HLPhat

I don’t think that the crew from the first landing even made back before the poverty pimps were complaining that the money should have gone down their rat-hole rather than being ‘wasted’ on space exploration.


19 posted on 02/18/2017 7:36:16 PM PST by chb
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To: Salamander; Windflier

We’re only going to go to the moon so we can get pictures of the flat-as-a-pancake Earth spinning like a Frisbee in space.

Or maybe that big turtle really is there.....


20 posted on 02/18/2017 7:49:13 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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