When you look back on the moon landing...

[kurt454]

I was 4 during the Apollo 17 mission. Now we need to get some astronauts to Mars.

 

[squirrel dog]

I'm surprised we dont have a base on the Moon by now.Seems like it would be way easier to launch from there to go to say Mars , than from Earth.Course what do I know,I'm just a tax payer .

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
I'm surprised we dont have a base on the Moon by now.Seems like it would be way easier to launch from there to go to say Mars , than from Earth.Course what do I know,I'm just a tax payer .

It would be easier to launch from an orbiting station that a moonbase (though the orbiting station would likely use the resources of a moon base).

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: kurt454
I was 4 during the Apollo 17 mission. Now we need to get some astronauts to Mars.

Mars needs women.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Considering how primitive the technology was THEN compared to NOW it is pretty wild.

Now people employed by NASA can't convert from english to metric and end up crashing probes.

The slide rule FTW!