Russian space agency. (Wonder if James T. Kirk will be there....)
Posted on 08/03/2010 8:58:11 AM PDT by kronos77
English.news.cn 2010-08-03 21:01:21 FeedbackPrintRSS
MOSCOW, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Russia will bring impulse neutron generator to the moon in 2012, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday.
"Roscosmos plans to send to the moon a spacecraft bearing a neutron generator developed by our institute, to study lunar surface," RIA Novosti news agency quoted Yevgeny Bogolyubov, the deputy chief designer of the Automation Engineering Scientific Research Institute as saying.
The IGN-10 K neutron generator, designed to determine the content of water in the soil, will also be used to study the Mars surface, said the leading space researcher.
The scientist said it would be installed onboard a NASA Mars lab, which is set to be launched in 2011.
When I was a child, I would stay up all night just to watch our first moon rockets crash into the moon, taking pictures all the way. I would sit by the TV and watch Americans in orbit, and never missed a minute.
Now, in my 60’s, I can only watch Russia and China fulfill our dreams.
Libs hate our space program b/c we made the mistake of painting the American flag on our craft and planting the American flag on the moon. It should have been the UN flag, or no flag at all.
What flag will Russia and China use?
Russian space agency. (Wonder if James T. Kirk will be there....)
I heard that NASA will be launching a new outreach center “midnight basketball and such” just south of mecca in 2011
Yep! Russkies will be getting on Moon, but NASA will be first on Half-Moon!
Match that Russkie! Ha!
Me too.
Libs hate our space program b/c we made the mistake of painting the American flag on our craft and planting the American flag on the moon.
The real mistake was saying "We come in peace for all mankind".
What we should have said, in the manner of every explorer in history:
"I claim thee for The United States of America!"
I'm not naïve enough to think we could keep all of it, but I bet it would have touched off a real space race!
Anything but a human, eh?
Hmm. I wonder if LEND (the Russian-built neutron detector aboard LRO) will be able to see these neutrons?
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