By 2030 there should be more lunar infrastructure than in 1969.
Posted on 05/29/2023 10:12:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When did he say that and how addled was he?
FYI, we can’t do that today. And with Biden in office, we won’t be able to in the next seven years.
The US has retrograded. Significantly.
I thought Moon Base Alpha has already been built on the moon back in 1999. Commander Koenig was in charge last I knew.
The core of the program, the Space Launch System, is well behind schedule and well over-budget. Better hope that Musk gets the Starship flying well (and that NASA lets him fly the Orion on it or gives up and rides an enhanced Dragon capsule instead) if you want anything in lunar orbit to greet the Chinese.
If DWA is any indication, they’ll stop short then crash into it.
Moon missions are for ascendant nations. The US is too weak, woke and broke for ventures like that anymore. Let’s concern ourselves with more pressing issues here on earth.
Good luck with Chinese on the moon, they can’t even get an aircraft carrier to work... All words.
NASA did it in less than 7 years last time.
I bet Musk could do it now, if he wanted to.
"NASA represented roughly 2.2% of the total US federal outlays from 1959 to 1972. "
“Buzz Aldrin says we didn’t go to the moon.....”
Jim Irwin, Christian and Patriot to the core, said they did.
“...and today we are told we need to develop new technology to get back?”
Of course, first all electric space shot. It’ll priobablhy have seat warmers.
And if the Chinese beat us there, they’ll have it overpopulated in 2 years. Half of their astronauts will be pregnant upon landing.
wy69
The future of America looks to be like some of the other countries in this world today.. We'll hire foreigners to build our bridges, our roads, large building and just about everything else you can think of..
Our schools are fowled to the point where they are nothing more then leftest hellholes where some of the most grotesque of our society are congregating..
There were articles in the past number of years that a single i-phone back then has more computing power than what was needed for the Apollo missions. If that is true, then one would think that would be one area for huge cost savings. Except we are talking about the feral givernment running things here so it will be even more expensive.
Ok, well it was about 4.5% of federal tax dollars, which is not the same as the federal budget. I should have said the former.
Maybe. The demonkkrap party has a history (ask Monica’s boyfriend, BJ Clinton) and will find a way to transfer the needed technology to them when it is needed.
Computing power is not really important since all that is needed for space travel is Newtonian physics which is hundreds of years old. And in the 60’s and 70’s NASA had about the equivalent of a programmable calculator. It’s parts manufacturing that represents most of the savings today, I think. Back then most of the parts had to be custom manufactured by hand. And there were a lot more of them needed, since modern rocket engines contain far fewer.
Yuri Gregarin admitted that he never orbited the earth. He started to state that publicly so the KGB had him killed in a Mig accident.
The givernment is never interested in saving money, only spending so their power is never diminished, only expanded.
If you have ever seen what it costs to machine a screw or rivet to feral givernment quality and reliability specifications, including all of the record keeping up and down the supply chain for traceability etc. .... the parts manufacturing will be much more expensive than off the shelf prices. Which by the way, the off the shelf stuff is often made in China, and is of poor quality.
Then there will be the bloated administrative expenses, such as there will have to be a racist Director of D.I.E. and a department with about 100 groomers specially assigned to the project. There will be a couple of wings for the EPA involved to calculate how much carbon will be generated so ICE cars like yours can be removed from the roadway to make sure the space shot is carbon neutered - which of course removal of ICE cars will be an existential urgent national security interest as will be justified by a highly redacted Sea Eye A study (can’t divulge sources and methods) written just for one space shot. They’ll have to have a wing of lawyers to take car owners to feral court who object to losing their cars. Then there will be the ads on tv telling you “we are all in this together” and the only white person in the ad will be represented by a cross-dresser or a lesbian .... I could go on ... but most of the costs will have nothing to do with the materials or the computers.
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