Europe targets the Moon

BBC News ^ | 3/4/03

[areafiftyone]

NASA needs to get back on track again!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

NASA is over. Unless a private consortium springs up to advance manned spaceflight, we'll be watching the rest of the world (especially China) from now on.

[Sabertooth]

No wonder Europe thinks it's the '60s.

[Sparta]

Eurotrash going to the moon ping

[Mo1]

They're flying to the moon???

A bit behind in the times don't ya think?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...6-American Flags waving up there on our Moon =

...The WINNER..!!!

[areafiftyone]

I don't think NASA is over. This country has had a love affair with space exploration and will never give it up. NASA will continue and SHOULD CONTINUE!!!

[Reeses]

"the size of a toaster"

That's about the total mass socialists can afford to send into space.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Who cares?

[Textide]

I'm all for it. Just hope they beat the Chicoms there.

Meanwhile, NASA needs to be working on getting to Mars.

[rs79bm]

Europe targets Europa. Sounds better.

[Redcloak]

The French are hoping that it's really made of cheese.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

How was the Moon made? Simple - even my two year old could tell you that God did it.

[anymouse]

NASA does not equal American space development. American space development will continue with or without NASA.

IMNSHO the without option would ensure a much more robust development of space rather than a limited view of space as a place for socialist science projects.

[RightWhale]

NASA needs to be working on getting to Mars.

That would change everything, wouldn't it? We've been watching movies about the Galactic Empire for so long that Mars seems like an easy, maybe trivial goal. But it isn't trivial at all. If our civilization is an impacted wisdom tooth, Mars would be a root canal.

[Willie Green]

NASA needs to get back on track again!!!

As long as my tax dollars aren't paying for it,
let the Euroweenies race the Chinese to the Moon.
Been there, done that.
Nothing up there but a bunch of sterile rocks and dust.

[SamAdams76]

If NASA is to get back on track, they need to stop being so squeamish about taking casualties. Considering the dangers inherent in space travel, I think we've got a pretty good track record. So why do we shut down the space program for a year or two when a tragedy occurs? When a test pilot crashes the latest military jet, we don't shut down the military for a year or two!

We also need to stop sending civilians into space for at least the time being. We need to go back to military test pilots and start pushing that envelope again.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The spectrometer, which is "the size of a toaster", will determine the absolute abundances of key elements (aluminium, magnesium and silicon) in the rocks that make up the lunar surface. Cheese?

Plus it will only take 15 months, a manned mission can't be far behind.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Didn't we already go there? ........ lol........

[Democratshavenobrains]

This is horrible. What if the Euro-Socialists are able to successfully convert the native Lunarians to Socialism? :)