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European rocket scientists pledge to make first private Moon landing in 2018
The Telegraph ^ | 19 MARCH 2017 • 4:57PM | Sarah Knapton, science editor

Posted on 03/19/2017 4:17:19 PM PDT by COBOL2Java


Mission to the Moon: two rovers could be the first to land on the moon for 46 years CREDIT: PTSCIENTISTS


The first private Moon landing could be made by a group of European scientists next year.

A group of rocket engineers called PTScientists (Part-time Scientists), has built a landing module and two rovers, which are expected to launch in 2018 on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The landing module will be programmed to touch down in the Taurus-Littrow valley, around two miles from the site of the final Apollo 17 mission.


The spacecraft will land two miles from the Apollo 17 site then rovers will be deployed to track down Nasa's moon buggy CREDIT: PTSCIENTISTS

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: dljordan

The U.S. could have colonized the stars if we hadn’t had to support the entire world.


Uh, we haven’t made it to Mars yet.


21 posted on 03/19/2017 5:22:44 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MNDude
49 years after the Great America sent two men.

Time to send another. Trump should create the Barack H. Obama Manned Space Launch Center, install two trampolines, and invite volunteers. This could be done at very low cost on a spare parking lot at the Cape.

22 posted on 03/19/2017 5:40:24 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Works For Me! Anything To Discredit That 0Bozo Ba$tard!


23 posted on 03/19/2017 5:44:58 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: COBOL2Java

I still dont get how the moon isnt flooded with robots over the past 30 years.

Since the signal lag isnt that bad, they could easily be controlled almost in real-time. Heck, we could have had robot construction equipment there the past 20 years building an advanced moon base, only needing NASA to send some people.


24 posted on 03/19/2017 5:46:32 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: COBOL2Java

Anybody notice anything about that picture of the international team?


25 posted on 03/19/2017 5:50:13 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: TalBlack
Anybody notice anything about that picture of the international team?

They're all white men. I've been triggered and I'm headed to my Safe Space now.

26 posted on 03/19/2017 5:53:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dsrtsage

It’s not the diversity, it’s those pesky
Native Lunar burial mounds.


27 posted on 03/19/2017 5:55:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: sphinx

The Barack H. Obama Manned Space Launch Center


28 posted on 03/19/2017 6:06:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: COBOL2Java

Reminds me of the 2006 VW commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vxfGBEMmM

Two related ones in that series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCIF6JF1O5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv157ZIInUk


29 posted on 03/19/2017 6:15:16 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: COBOL2Java

I really doubt this will happen. I’ll believe it when it does.


30 posted on 03/19/2017 6:16:57 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: factoryrat
"Establish new mecca on the moon. Send all of the muslims there."

Do you have any idea how much that would cost? Much cheaper to establish a new mecca at the bottom of the sea and send them all there wearing concrete galoshes.

31 posted on 03/19/2017 6:23:14 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: laplata

Even if we hadn’t, Senator William Proxmire basically killed any hopes we had for that, even before we were paying for everyone everywhere.


32 posted on 03/19/2017 8:43:41 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

You’re right.


33 posted on 03/19/2017 11:09:18 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Doesn’t matter.

We’ll end up subsidizing it one way or another. Or at least we would have. Not sure now with the sea-change of Trump’s election.

An example of what I mean is in pharmaceuticals. Those aren’t gov either. But, since the Marshall Plan, all a European company has to do to have every. single. expense. covered. is to have an office for their company in the US and agree to submit to FDA testing.

All research, all experimentation, all costs even of production, carried by US tax payers.

I, and many many like me, am sick to ****ing death of European parasites.


34 posted on 03/20/2017 12:05:55 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: laplata

“Uh, we haven’t made it to Mars yet.”

That’s kind of the point.


35 posted on 03/20/2017 3:22:56 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: VanDeKoik

NASA spent most of the last 30 years under multiple different administrations deliberately running around killing off private and/or low cost space lift in order to protect the shuttle. They killed Rotary Rocket, they killed DC-X, they killed many other ventures.

There was *no* lift available because the US and EU governments refused to let anyone develop anything with lunar lift capability and Russia couldn’t be bothered.


36 posted on 03/20/2017 5:38:37 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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