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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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To: Gator113

He warned her the day would come!


41 posted on 02/18/2017 9:52:38 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Rastus

I miss the comedy of those days.


42 posted on 02/18/2017 10:24:47 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: Salamander; Windflier
"I’m dreading the moment when someone brings up Larry Niven’s Ring World series."

Not to worry.
If that should occur I'll simply disintegrate them
with my Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.


43 posted on 02/19/2017 12:58:53 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: HLPhat

I am old enough to remember when JFK galvanized the nation to land a man on the moon and return him safely within the decade. Despite tracks and daunting challenges we succeeded and then squandered that success with a lack of political will and the conversion of NASA from an agency full of engineers and inovators to one filed with bureaucrats and political hacks.


44 posted on 02/19/2017 1:19:06 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: HLPhat

That is technically impossible. To go back to something, you would have had to have gone there sometime earlier.


45 posted on 02/19/2017 1:59:07 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Why go back to the moon? Been there, done that, multiple times. Excelsior! Do something beyond the moon now. I was a kid during the last moon landing. Thought we’d be waaaay beyond this by now. Armchair astronaut that I am.


46 posted on 02/19/2017 2:30:41 AM PST by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo

Nuclear test range perhaps...


47 posted on 02/19/2017 3:26:29 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every ulture has its noodle.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Hmmmmm!


48 posted on 02/19/2017 3:52:26 AM PST by freepertoo
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To: Pelham

The Space Shuttle became a major problem. Described as “routine access to space,” it was anything but. The Shuttle took on a life of its own and soon became an end, not a means.

I was involved in a revolutionary program called
the X-30 that tried to use scramjets to use the air in the atmosphere to get to orbit but we never mastered the scramjets at the level needed.

Before we can ROUTINELY go anywhere in space, we have to have a space station that can assemble and launch, so we aren’t overcoming earth’s atmosphere to launch.


49 posted on 02/19/2017 5:29:37 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the 4Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

“Before we can ROUTINELY go anywhere in space, we have to have a space station that can assemble and launch, so we aren’t overcoming earth’s atmosphere to launch.”

That would be a great goal for the Trump admin to set. Maybe have private sector firms build the station with NASA only acting as coordinator.

Of course with NASA involved it will get hijacked for some SJW crusade the next time that the American people elect an Obama.


50 posted on 02/19/2017 1:06:22 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: LS

‘The Space Shuttle became a major problem. Described as “routine access to space,” it was anything but. The Shuttle took on a life of its own and soon became an end, not a means.’

I got the impression that it must have been gobbling up all of NASA’s resources. And it had all of the romance of a bus or a truck, which IIRC is what NASA was billing it as. Some real sharp marketing savvy there.

But as the two Shuttle disasters demonstrated, getting to and from space is not “routine” and remains inherently dangerous.


51 posted on 02/19/2017 1:16:36 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: Pelham

Indeed the “aeronautics” part got completely left out which is part of the push for the aerospace plane.


52 posted on 02/19/2017 3:26:00 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the 4Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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