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Moon takes a backseat in new space plan

* 20:05 13 November 2008 by Anna Davison
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The US should be aiming to put astronauts on Mars in the long term and on asteroids in the short term, according to a new report from the Planetary Society.

Instead of trying to recapture the thrill of the Apollo era of lunar exploration by putting people back on the Moon by 2020 - the vision outlined by President Bush in 2004 - the space advocacy organisation is urging the incoming Administration and Congress to set its sights farther beyond Earth.

NASA should begin a new era of human exploration with relatively modest excursions to nearby destinations, such as asteroids, before stepping up to more ambitious missions, including to Mars, the society says.

"We'd like to see a human exploration programme with specific milestones that gets people out above low-Earth orbit, out to other destinations," says society president Jim Bell of Cornell University.

"We're not against going to the Moon," Bell told New Scientist, "but there's perhaps a more logical flow that could be developed. Going to the Moon may make sense at the right time."

Mars is "new and different and exciting. Scientifically, it also has the potential to be very rewarding", Bell added (see NASA urged to focus on sending people to Mars).

Very good stuff. :clap:

Yeah wouldn't make sense for this to go here:http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=73978

hahaha :lol:

i don't know if we will have money for either the moon or Mars.

At this rate, they won't be able to afford to take the elevator to the top of the Sear tower.



we're all broke

Just visiting, not buying.

Wait wait wait, you mean, Bush...lied to us?

Do we have money for anything else we're doing?

Exactly, fuck USA, our dollar was even with yours, and then your economy went into the shitter, while ours is still stable, and yet somehow our dollar is worth less than yours now.

Fucking money printing assholes. :furious:

Now going to vegas costs me 25% more than it did 3 months ago.

Your welcome for letting you use our army...

Right, we really appreciate it, as does the rest of the world. Go print some more money and keep sticking your noses where they don't belong.

damn it....i thought for a second you were being sarcastic, but now i see that you ARE genuinely appreciative for our army's protection. :wallbash:

Canada has an army.

They have these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...H_334%29_1.jpg

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "letting us use your army" means, when have we needed your Army? We have our own Army which is more than adequate. The rest of the world likes us, so we don't really need the huge force your guys do. You don't see any terrorists attacking Canadian soil. Maybe the American government should try diplomacy for once, instead of bombing the shit out of everything they come across.

And actually, maybe you should be thanking us for letting you use our Air Force base in Cold Lake as a stop over point when flying over the North Pole, that might make it a shitty ride to Russia otherwise.

FTW, I would just like to bring up the War of 1812 when we burned down the White House, that was sweet. :clap:

the hole point of putting people back on the moon was H3 exploration and to explore the moons financial viability as an alternative energy source

its was quite literally space exploration through the eyes of an oil man

Fixed.

Also ... good point.

You're right, you don't need our army.
You will probably never be invaded, nobody likes freezing their balls off.
and if the eskimos ever try anything, I'm sure your mounties can handle them.
I apologize...

Apology accepted.

Fun things to do in the cold

-ski
-toboggan
-ice fish
-snowmobile
-club seals
-bow fish
-ice race
-build an igloo
-produce frozen snot rockets
-snow shoe

The list goes on but I am lazy, Trevor or Debit, please feel free to add to it.

Canada sounds like a great place

you must have tiny mouths...

or very big fish. now do they pull the fish out of the water or do they dunk their heads under to suckle a fish

yea its a bobbing for apples scenario

oh snap !!!

i knew it. those filthy canadiens