RETURNING TO THE MOON
mojoala said...
Correction it is not until 2018 before we get a man on the moon according to nasa on NPR this morning. 13 years!
And the kicker is that they are going to use the same method they supposedly used 40 years ago....a lunar capsule but just a little bigger attached to the top of a rocket, etc, etc, etc and then have the capsule land in the ocean just like supposedly 40 years ago.
Why not just create a vessel that would fit in the cargo space of the space shuttle and have that vessel traverse back and forth from the moon and the international space station?
Moonauts would be taken up via shuttle, dock with space station, moonauts would then board this new vessel and go to the moon, the off going moonauts would take the vessel back to the space station and then get back on board the space shuttle and go home?
Come on people, put the brains back to work and think this out....
Yes I saw that they are going back to something similar to the Apollo missions. It would be the cheapest way to do it. Your method would mean that money would have to be spent to ready the shuttle prior to each mission and then build an Atlas V rocket. They could just build the Atlas V or something similar and forget the costly shuttle, which loses tiles on every mission as well as foam from the external fuel tank.
By the way, if you believe it all to be a hoax, how do you explain the two shuttle disasters?? Both were televised.
posted by Kenny @ 8:26 AM
1 comments
1 Comments:
I did not say I believed the space shuttle is a hoax, I said landing on the moon was a hoax. And still do.
But back to the capsule thing. Your'e planning on an X number of missions to the moon, lets say 100. Why have 100 individual launches costing god knows what, when you could put 10 of these vessels up there for shuttlling between space station and the moon. And in the process utilize the space shuttle to carry the moonauts and supplies to the space station. Especially moreso when we are talking about creating a jumping off point for any future manned flights to Mars. Especially moreso when they are going to be revamping the Space Shuttle anyway.
Let the current space shuttles and future ones be the backbone of this space network.
I am looking at this from a long range view point not a short range view point.
Post a Comment
<< Home