[USMA:23648] Journey to the Moon

[kilopascal]

2002-11-28   This morning the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran an article by J. Michael Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times.  Apparently an American company based in San Diego is planning a moon mission and has recently signed a 40 M$ contract with the Russian Space company Kosmotras to launch a rocket to the moon by next October.   Anyone interested can send along greetings at 2.5 k$/g.  The rocket will also carry a list of people who have stalked claims to acreage on the lunar surface.   Since the rocket will be launched Kazakhstan one wonders if this project will be metric either fully or in part.  The article doesn't state who is building the rocket, but if it is done outside the US the chances are great that it will be metric.  One wonders if humans do successfully return to the moon permanently, will SI be the only legal system to be used on the moon or elsewhere in space?  Or will the US try to export FFU to the stars.    Here is the companies website:   http://www.transorbital.net/   John