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Originally posted by Aelita
If we wanted to study more of the Moon, we could do it very successfully using robotic missions. Keeping humans there, with no ready water supply and in conditions of high radiation levels, can't really be justified.
Aelita was the Queen of Mars in the famous socialist parable filmed by Jakov Protazanov in 1924. It was altogether fitting that her name would be given to the leading Soviet plan for the conquest of the Red Planet.
Originally posted by sardion2000
A Moon base is coming, wether it will have a US flag or a Hilton Hotels flag is another matter though
Until Hilton or Branson etc..... make a huge investment, backed by shareholders that believe in their dream, don't expect a moon base anytime soon. We are just beginning to move into space and as any human endeavor in the past, it will be driven by profit. But people are working on it, and baby steps are being. made.www.space.com...
Originally posted by sardion2000
A Moon base is coming, wether it will have a US flag or a Hilton Hotels flag is another matter though
Originally posted by concept
We're better off first understanding our extreme neighbors and then going right at Mars rather than screwing around with a $xbillions base on moon that wouldn't give us much more information than we have now.
Originally posted by Oakley
It has been many years now since man has apparently been to the moon. The question I would like answered is why have we not built a habitat there? Surely with all the talk about manned missions to mars the most logical step would be to do a trial run of the mission to the moon first, where help and a rescue mission (if needed) are possible. The longer we dont return to the moon the more I am inclined to think that all the sceptics about the appollo missions are right and that it really was faked.
Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
In terms of knowledge about space and space exploration, how humans and life in general reacts to a space environment, bettering our technology, studying aspects of known and unknown science in near Zero-G, and possible energy sources, the a base on the Moon would ne indispensible.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
It was faked.