NASA in Moon Photshopping shocker

AcidHell2 said:
because we know what's there.
ATM there's only really two reasons to go back.
He3 which we don't need yet and may well won't need.
And as a test bed for mission to mars. But do we really need a test bed. Can do extensive tests on earth which has an atmosphere and computer modelling.

Is there even concentrated resources on the moon to use it as a construction site for large space ships.
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Solar cells from moon dust? Massive solar energy farms, produced entirely by automated drones? Ice for use as water, which requires a much lower Delta V to get than it would from Earth? Colonization? Far more scientific research? I mean, do you really think we can do 'enough' and collect 'enough' samples from just six missions to call it a day?
 
PermaBanned said:
Solar cells from moon dust? Massive solar energy farms, produced entirely by automated drones? Ice for use as water, which requires a much lower Delta V to get than it would from Earth? Colonization? Far more scientific research? I mean, do you really think we can do 'enough' and collect 'enough' samples from just six missions to call it a day?
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Aren't you 16? What do you know compared to somebody who's got a phd and has worked in the field for 20 years?
 
PermaBanned said:
Solar cells from moon dust? Massive solar energy farms, produced entirely by automated drones? Ice for use as water, which requires a much lower Delta V to get than it would from Earth? Colonization? Far more scientific research? I mean, do you really think we can do 'enough' and collect 'enough' samples from just six missions to call it a day?
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That only requires going back if or when such manufacturing plants or colonisation moduals have been built. rather than any time soon. Just googled the solar cells very interesting.

Mars is a much more tantalising objective for the near future.

Ally piggy I agree we need different space vehicles. It would still be better IMO to pool money and research into a couple of variants and fast track them. Once we have a cheap and reliable form. Then the normal. Pace research can continue.
 
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PermaBanned said:
Eggs, basket? It shouldn't be one or the other.
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Cash constraints mean it will be one or the other. At current costs you can't run both simultaneously. It's either one or the other, or should I say, one then the other.

Oh and they still Redon under $1000 a kilo is possible, imagine what we could build with those costs :(.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Cash constraints mean it will be one or the other. At current costs you can't run both simultaneously. It's either one or the other, or should I say, one then the other.
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Not necessarily. With proper funding clearly both would be the wise choice, but returning to the moon if only to harvest the water in the ice there for use on a mission to Mars may well work out cheaper than carrying enough water for the whole crew on a minimum 17.6 month round trip (assuming Hohmann Transfer Orbits, which is about all our current technology is capable of, but then you would probably have to wait at Mars for the Synodic period to come round again which could take another two years).
 
There really is nothing more awesome than the Apollo program, no question the most epic, awe inspiring and interesting thing mankind has ever done, every time i read about it I discover something new and amazing. Just looking at the moon on a clear night it quite simply blows me away and will continue to do so for as long as I live.

Fantastic :)
 
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