We’re going back to the moon!

robfosters · 11 Dec 2017 at 21:47

In a Trump does good shocker, he has signed a policy directive instructing NASA to return astronauts to the moon. He eventually wants to use that to move forward to exploring Mars and many worlds beyond.

No timeframe is given, but it’s got to be a good sign that the order has been given. Will stop all the conspiracy theories anyway when we get there lol. Let’s just hope he doesn’t want to build a wall on it to keep out the aliens.

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-or...oon-to-lay-foundations-for-mars-trip-11167181

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Dec 2017 at 21:49

I head he will build a wall around the middle first.

Vonhelmet · 11 Dec 2017 at 21:49

Trump wants to tick a box to say he’s doing something no one else has. After all, stupid Obama never went to the moon! Nyah nyah nyah!

robfosters · 11 Dec 2017 at 21:52

The experts reckon it will cost upwards of £100bn :eek:

chaparral · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:04

What waste of money....

What good is it going to do by sending someone to the moon.. :confused:

muon · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:04

Does good? ACA is too expensive but this is okay.

What is the point of manned missions when robotics is getting more advanced by the day.

VincentHanna · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:04

There's literally no point in this.

No scientific reason to do so.

robfosters · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:05

chaparral said:
What waste of money....

What good is it going to do by sending someone to the moon..

Well, we’ll be alright for cheese.

4K8KW10 · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:06

lol It will be for the first time in history.

VincentHanna said:
There's literally no point in this.

No scientific reason to do so.

Actually, it must be very interesting to go there. It is so close and the guys sent there can explore it more intensely.

Raymond Lin · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:07

I wouldn't call Trump does good. I call that Trump does stupid.

There is a reason we stopped going to the moon.

4K8KW10 · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:09

Raymond Lin said:
I wouldn't call Trump does good. I call that Trump does stupid.

There is a reason we stopped going to the moon.

If we don't go to the Moon, I'm afraid we will not go anywhere else.

muon · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:09

4K8KW10 said:
If we don't go to the Moon, I'm afraid we will not go anywhere else.

Already been to the moon.

(not me personally)

Raymond Lin · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:11

4K8KW10 said:
If we don't go to the Moon, I'm afraid we will not go anywhere else.

You mean if we don't go to the moon again? to collect more rocks?

Jimmeh · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:12

His Taxation of the middle and lower classes in the US will easily pay for it.

4K8KW10 · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:12

muon said:
Already been to the moon.

(not me personally)

Raymond Lin said:
You mean if we don't go to the moon again? to collect more rocks?

I am not so sure that we have the technology to go to the Moon right now

savagesam117 · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:13

Yaay, Trump thinks he done well. He should give himself a pat on the back.

Zefan · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:13

Regardless of his motives, I'm happy this has happened. The burning embers of what remains of the public appetite for space exploration needs stoking badly. Private enterprise can only do so much. It will be interesting to see the ways in which and to what extent it affects those private enterprises.

A future without humans being a space fairing civilisation isn't something I would like to happen, hopefully this is a step away from that.

SexyGreyFox · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:14

robfosters said:
Will stop all the conspiracy theories anyway when we get there lol.

No it won't - idiots will idiot.

muon · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:16

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761862/nasa-moon-mission-mars-donald-trump

President Donald Trump is officially directing NASA to send astronauts back to the Moon, as a pit stop to eventually send people to Mars. The move is part of a new order, Space Policy Directive-1, which Trump signed today during a very brief ceremony at the White House. The directive is meant to reorient NASA’s focus from the Red Planet to the Moon, at least in the short term, shifting away from the priorities set forth by the Obama administration.

Now it makes more sense.

I know how someone convinced him to do this.

Raymond Lin · 11 Dec 2017 at 22:18

muon said:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761862/nasa-moon-mission-mars-donald-trump

Now it makes more sense.

I know how someone convinced him to do this.

There we go.

Like everything else, he is trying to undone everything Obama put in place, no matter what it is.

Obama's name is on that? let's undo it. So that Obama's legacy will be that he has achieved nothing !!! Trump's legacy will be one that he ruins the country and the planet.

He is purely on a mission to undo everything Obama has done.