Kolek planning to go pro
https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/nasas-moon-rocket-artemis-1-go-for-launch-after-final-review/If successful we may have a new generation of Astronauts on the moon by 2025. I can remember the excitement when Apollo 8 circled the moon in 1968, then the landing in July '69. In the fall of '69 I got to shake the hands of all 3 Apollo 11 astronauts when they came to Marquette to accept the University's award for outstanding exploration. In a way it was the highlight of my time at MU.
Keep sciencing. Despite sultan's proclamation to the contrary, I'm pretty sure that Nasa is looking to use the moon for a extra-Earth base station. Especially with the ISS running out of useful life.
I will freely admit to not understanding this completely, but I really don't understand the need for an "extra-Earth base station." So we can go to Mars more easily? Great. Why are we doing that though?
Pretty soon Earth will just be one giant sh!tstorm, so we need a new place to destroy
The NASA tour is one of the coolest thing I've ever visited. I loved the recreated 1969 moon landing where the control room actually shakes from the rocket launch and the actual audio from the day.Seeing a rocket launch is on my bucket list. I get NASA reminder emails all the time announcing the "launch window".
Lol, we never landed on the moon. Do the research
Curious where this tour was? I’ve been to NASA facilities in Cape Canaveral, Houston and Huntsville and can’t recall seeing this.
Agree. What would be the point? It would give a 2-3 day head start on going to Mars. Why?
Cape Canaveral. I want to say in 2018 or 2019 after they finished some major renovations on site.Control room was put together exactly as July 1969 including a sweater on the back of a chair.More on the same NASA visit when I don't have to type on my phone.
We just want to get to Mars to check on the potato crop.NASA needs to remember to pack the sour cream and chives.
It’s not time or distance, it’s launch mass savings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equationGoing to Mars will take lots of ship (mass) and fuel for trans-Martian-orbital-insertion maneuver (more mass). Launching from earth means fighting earth gravity for every kg you send up the well. Using a lunar base station that can access lunar ice and refine fuel means you fight the 1/3g of lunar gravity to refuel before continuing to Mars and thus have significantly lower costs.
Sultan > Tsiolkovsky.
??? He was responding to Jockey. I understand why its easier to go to Mars from the Moon rather than from Earth. I just don't understand why we are sending humans to Mars - or even to the Moon. We have the capability to send probes and rovers. We are even proposing to retrieve some samples. Which is really cool.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission