Hope this doesnt mean that any moon/mars plans are scrapped completely..

Tombstone

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8489097.stm

To be honest, I would be kind of annoyed if it does. Its almost half a century now since we went to the moon, I really was hoping for more progress towards man stepping on another planet.

Having said that I am also conflicted with the desire to spend more effort on the exploration of our sea floor.

(and yes I realise that some skeptics will read this and declare that the reason why plans to return to the moon are being scrapped is because we never went there in the first place)
 
The way we are right now financially putting things this on hold for 20 years isn't such as bad idea.
 
When you owe 1.6 Trillion dollars it's definately time for cut backs. :p
Lol Yanky Eggface. :D
 
Also the sort of technologies that were developed for the previous moon missions are still proving incredibly useful today, and new technologies devloped for any future missions will almost certainly prove useful for us as well.
Things like recycling systems - if you're on a long mission to the moon/on the moon it'll prove incredibly expensive to take up all the water etc you'll need, so if they work on better filtration/recycling systems for up there, they'll be useful down here as well, then there are the likely advances in computing/instrunmentation, and batteries etc.

I would hope even if NASA loses funding for near future manned space missions, other countries (and maybe even some commercial enterprises*) might continue.

It's almost unbelievable that 40 years after the first moon landing, we have basically not advanced our manned space technology much (and are actually basically going backwards in regards to the craft we're using compared to 20 years ago).


*Google Space:p
 
Tombstone said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8489097.stm

To be honest, I would be kind of annoyed if it does. Its almost half a century now since we went to the moon, I really was hoping for more progress towards man stepping on another planet.

Having said that I am also conflicted with the desire to spend more effort on the exploration of our sea floor.

(and yes I realise that some skeptics will read this and declare that the reason why plans to return to the moon are being scrapped is because we never went there in the first place)
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Come on, you are joking yeah?
 
The moon is the first step to mars. If we dont want to be come extinct, then we need to find somewhere else to live. When the chinese are making trillions of dollars selling the stuff they mine on the moon, people will see that the american decision is shortsighted.
 
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Nate--IRL-- said:
The Chinese will be first back to the moon, and very likely be first to Mars also.

The cancellation of the US constellation program, confirms it.

Nate
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possibly, possibly.

however, what on earth is the deal with the comma in the 2nd sentence? it should definitely not be there.

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doofski said:
Im sure the next footprint on the moons surface, will be made in china.
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Aod said:
possibly, possibly.

however, what on earth is the deal with the comma in the 2nd sentence? it should definitely not be there.

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Actually yeah you're right it does look odd, don't know why I put it there.

Edit:- the second quote from doofski works as written, does it not? Anyway enough of the grammar police. :P

Nate
 
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peterattheboro said:
Why go back to the Moon? There's nothing there.
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Moon cheese, tons of the stuff.

Shame its gone on hold. I would have loved to see live footage of another man on the moon since I missed the first one.

The most exciting thing I've seen space exploration wise was the failure of Beagle 2 and that was one big anticlimax.
 
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