We are going to the moon again

[Czar]

<< FIRST INDIAN MAY STEP ONTO MOON IN 2005

A sensational new was announced on Sunday by Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization. He said that India was launching a Moon exploration programme. After a high-profile US-USSR moon race, the planet Earth?s satellite seems to have virtually fallen into oblivion. A US national was first to step onto the Moon?s surface, while the Soviet Union took a lead in a remote-controlled research. Nowadays, the Moon does not represent an object of a predominant interest. Heaps of data have been accumulated about the Moon since then, and Moon ground fragments are on display in various museums throughout the world. So, India?s decision to send a man to the Moon is quite unexpected.
According to Dr. Kasturirangan, India has all necessary means available to launch a lunar mission. ?Given the level of space technology level reached, we are ready to get the programme started,? he is quoted as saying. Yet, it is necessary, for this purpose, to set up a unified research centre and also a training centre. Within the 6 months, a special research team will be working on the details of the project, after which a respective report will be submitted to the government. India?s space exploration programme has been carried out since 1972. >>


http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/06/25/8623.html

 

[tontod]

This is pretty neat. I read about the Chinese also making plans. Maybe it'll be a China vs. India race instead of the US vs. USSR race of days gone by. Maybe they'll be making plans of colonization instead of just collecting some rocks and dust.

 

[geno]

We need to do something cool with the moon, it's been too damn boring for the past decade. I wanna see some moon football or moon wrestling - cmon NASA, do something fun!

 

[pulse8]

So they are basically just going to the moon because they can?

 

[Kntx]

Ya, why else would you want to go to the moon?

 

[geno]

<< Ya, why else would you want to go to the moon? >>


to play some moon basketball

 

[Czar]

No no, we need a Park like in futurama

 

[ManSnake]

<< This is pretty neat. I read about the Chinese also making plans. Maybe it'll be a China vs. India race instead of the US vs. USSR race of days gone by. Maybe they'll be making plans of colonization instead of just collecting some rocks and dust. >>



Frictions are always present between China and India, this might very well be a localized cold war. Instead of going to the Moon (conquered ground), it would be more beneficial if they can compete in a race going to Mars or maybe even Titan.

 

[UnixFreak]

People say &quot;again&quot; as if its ever happened before. Our hoax is going to screw the indians when the radiation burns them up.

 

[AndrewR]

It's just an excuse to develop ICBM technology without raising concerns in the U.S. or Pakistan.

*smoke and mirrors*

 

[kami]

We have large telescopes on earth...we're talking like 8.2 meter aperture. The Hubble space telescope is only 2.4 meter aperture... but why does it take much better images than the 8.2m telescopes which technically have dozens of times the light-gathering power (could be wrong on that, someone correct me)? Because it's in the darkness of space. Put some large surface telescopes on the dark side of the moon and we could see further than we ever have been able to previously.

 

[AndrewR]

The reason Hubble is able to see so far is the lack of an atmosphere, not the darkness of space per se. Planting an observatory on the moon is not as cost effective as using an orbiting platform like Hubble.

Until they come up with some manufacturing process that is extremely profitable and absolutely requires either a space or lunar environment to operate, then we'll only be sending probes up there. Once the ISS is completely operational, I suspect that they might just find something like that, however.

 

[viewton]

&quot;we landed on the moon, we landed on the moon!!&quot;

 

[viewton]

dp

 

[AppleTalking]

I think they're doing this more as an issue of national pride than of research regarding the moon.

<<People say &quot;again&quot; as if its ever happened before. Our hoax is going to screw the indians when the radiation burns them up.>>

LOL!!

Oh wait, you weren't serious, were you?

Nick

 

[Demon-Xanth]

NUKE THE MOON!

 

[Siva]

I say we bring a bunch of water to the moon, then put a lot of fish and stuff in it. That would be cool.

 

[GroundOO]

lol Siva

and DX, is it just me or do you like to nuke things? oh well, I'll respond the same way I did in the other post...


&quot;Nuke the moon!&quot;

Mr. President, are you suggesting that we blow up the moon??

Would you miss it? Would you miss it?!?


ahh austin powers

 

[pulpp]

that is great

 

[AaronP]

why colonize the moon when there's so much livable empty space in the world, I mean hell, Montana, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, all of those places are a LOT more habitable than the atmosphere-less, low gravity, mineral empty, cold ass moon.

Same can be said for Mars. I'd rather live in Butte, Montana.

 

[sandorski]

Cool!

 

[Czar]

Actually, a US Army officer once blanned during the cold war to nuke the moon, luckily it never got through.

 

[OS]

<< We are going to the moon again >>



wahoooo, I call shotgun!

 

[piku]

ok nevermind the link refuses to work

 

[Raspewtin]

if they take along a few extremely loaded tourists, they could break even