Re: Why the HELL haven't we gone back to the moon yet?

From: starlord (starlord_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:46:20 -0700

There IS things that can be done in low earth orbit, for one thing, on the
shuttle as a test, they where able to make micro beads that are used in
insultin pumps as filters, they where able to make them not only smaller,
but rounder too. I belive there's been batchs of them made and on the ISS
they could be made almost daily. Spacecraft parts could be sent into orbit
to the ISS and they could be put together and then even launched from nearby
the ISS. What we need is a full time large verson of the ISS as steping off
place to outbound crafts.

It was the DIPSTICKS in washington dc that killed the apollo program, just
when they started doing real work instead of just PR work, they where
stopped. If it had kept on going, we're have a moon base going already.

Every year those dipsticks will say "Oh, we're giving NASA another 20
billion for funding" but what they fail to say is that already CUT NASA's
budget by 25 billion the year before. 

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"Russell Wallace" <wallacethinmintr@eircom.net> wrote in message
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> [crossposting reduced to groups for which this is at least somewhat
> on-topic.]
>
> I'll answer that question with another one: why is it that we all
> think Apollo was a wonderful achievement, while many of us (myself
> included) think ISS should just be let deorbit rather than waste any
> more money on it? What's the difference?
>
> The difference is that with Apollo, _people were wise enough to quit
> while they were ahead_. Fly six missions - enough to prove it wasn't a
> fluke, and do everything that needed doing - and bow out gracefully
> before the sparkle wears off.
>
> _A_ space station (i.e. Skylab) was worth doing, to answer the
> questions "can people stay healthy without gravity?" and "is there
> anything useful or fun for people to do in low earth orbit?".
> (Unfortunately the answer to both questions is no, but that's the way
> the cookie crumbles; it was worth finding out.) Endlessly repeating
> the "put a cramped unhealthy camping trailer in low orbit for no
> apparent reason" thing just turns it from a great adventure into
> something the world can see is a dreary, pointless mess. Sending
> people back to the moon right now would do the same to Apollo - it
> would spoil the memory. Don't do it.
>
> Will it ever be time to go back to the moon? Yes - when we can build a
> self-sufficient colony in space, rather than just look around and go
> home again. Transport (better ships, cheaper access to space) is _not_
> the limiting factor on that. If we want to bring closer the time for a
> return to the moon - to stay - then the thing to do is work on the
> technology we'll need for self-sufficiency. Until then, let's work on
> things that _haven't_ been done before.
>
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