Mission to the Moon: two rovers could be the first to land on the moon for 46 years CREDIT: PTSCIENTISTS
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
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 ...
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.
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.
Works For Me! Anything To Discredit That 0Bozo Ba$tard!
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.
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.
It’s not the diversity, it’s those pesky
Native Lunar burial mounds.
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
I really doubt this will happen. I’ll believe it when it does.
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.
Even if we hadn’t, Senator William Proxmire basically killed any hopes we had for that, even before we were paying for everyone everywhere.
You’re right.
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.
“Uh, we haven’t made it to Mars yet.”
That’s kind of the point.
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.
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