Posted on 05/29/2023 10:12:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It should be our moon, American territory. We should destroy any Chinese craft seeking to go there. Okay, probably can’t and won’t do that, but too bad we didn’t capitalize on our moon landings so many years ago.
60 years late.
With any luck, we’ll be there to greet them, and they can stop by our lunar gateway space station orbiting the moon on the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
Of course by 2030, it’s questionable whether either the US or Chinese economies will support such efforts.
For centuries Chinese sailors roamed the seas, reaching as far as the east coast of Africa and up into the Red Sea. Then about 1450 A.D. the Confucian bureaucracy prohibited all such exploration on the grounds that it did not benefit the Emperor enough to justify the expense.
Now the roles are reversing, (unless our private space ventures bear fruit and aren’t cancelled by our own selfish leftists).
So, they did not specify whether the guys they put on the moon would arrive dead or alive?
Or, be able to come back?
Buzz Aldrin says we didn’t go to the moon.....
When did Buzz say we didn’t go to the moon?
Does anyone else find it out that it has been 50+ years since we have gone to the moon and today we are told we need to develop new technology to get back?
There is still an international treaty which says no one can own the moon. Besides, you only own what you can defend, and while China has been going forward with its space program, we’ve been going backward the last 50 years.
Black astronaut says lunar mission will be ‘major accomplishment’ in American history
If you take my class’ picture — the eight of us that were selected — and you put it next to the next smallest class, the original Mercury Seven, they chose the same [type of] person seven times.
It was seven, white, male, military, English-speaking test pilot Christians, that were the same height, weight, roughly. I mean, they were all about 37 years old.
And so my class was four men, four women, racially, gender diverse, different backgrounds, scientists, engineers, military officers, and some pilots. So, it’s a sign of progress. We should continually take steps forward.
It took almost 5% of the entire national budget to reach the moon in 1969, so that two people could run around a few hours collecting rocks and come right back again. It just needs to be cheaper.
That would be about $240 billion today or 20% of one of the COVID stimulus aid packages that were passed by congress. In all honesty it would be even less as our budget has exploded and we fund far more things today than we did in 1969.
Exactly my thought. They are going to waste billions to do it but there is no reason to do so. In the meantime they have failing banks to prop up, aging workforce, and that pre-war budget.
We should encourage the chicoms to waste as much money as possible on this boondogle, and even offer to provide our 1969 technology.
Let’s send every last diverse person to space, works for me.
And I guarantee you that treaty means nothing if and once China gets there. All you have to see is “their” islands.
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