At 04:02 PM 12/4/2006, Joseph Riggs wrote:
According to the article, Bush announced a 2020 return to the moon
back in 2004, although I don't recall hearing anything about
it. But the big news is the planned 'Polar Camp' on the moon planned for 2024.
Erm...why? I get missions to orbit and such, since you can do a lot
in the way of experiments and materials science projects there. And I
get the Voyager (and similar) missions, since they tell us a lot
about our solar system and its inhabitants. And I'm as gung ho as the
next guy about Hubble and other such projects, since they tell us a
lot about the universe in general. But what do we get out of a colony
on the moon? Can we actually set up observation posts there that will
tell us more than Hubble? Is mining going to be worth the trouble? What?
Building a permanent space station seems like a useful and worthwhile
project. By contrast, building a moon colony just seems...well,
looney. I don't get it.
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