NASA sees earliest manned moon landing in 2015

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
this is retarded. we should spend money on science in schools and support researchers. there is no sensible reason to go to the moon or mars unless we have cheap methods of propultion into the earth's orbit. if bush were halfway smart we would spend this money on college science and engineering programs, carbon nanotube reaserch to allow a cable strong enough for a space elevator, or alternatives to chemical rocket propultion

Look, I'm a HUGE fan of the space elevator, but we can't gamble on technoligies that don't yet exist. There may well be problems with the space elevator that we don't yet forsee. Also, taking money from Nasa will do nothing to help educators.

Read what I;ve said above, It is NOT an either/or proposition, and not going to space won't realistically improve things here on Earth.

Ive also done some research on a carbon nanotube space elevator, and while they idea is intriguing, I mean come on, it would have to anchored by an asteroid...not realistic to me for at least another 50 years

 

[xrax]

probably good practice for a mars mission

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: brigden

Originally posted by: DonVito
Congrats to NASA for spending billions of dollars to re-create what was an incredible accomplishment 47 years earlier. Maybe while they're at it, they can send more monkeys into orbit . . .

Heh.

Seriously, why bother sending men back to the moon? The first time was political - how does this differ? I don't mean to sound like a liberal, but I can't believe that you operate a society that would deem this important. I mean, human spirit and all that rubbish, but there are still people starving in your country - the richest, most powerful country in the world...

I don't think it's possible to keep everybody from going hungry.