NASA's Moon Base Plans

Here is an interesting story about Nasa's plans for the moon. Seems a bit outrageous to me. They are saying tours of duty on these moon bases will be about 6 months at a time by 2025. What do you think?




Here is the link to the article.

www.msnbc.msn.com...

Seems like a damn good idea to me. Permanent habitation off-world is the direction that we need to be heading.

Oh, and John Lear is full of shiit (obviously).

[edit on 2-2-2007 by Space Guy]

Sounds good, but that artist rendition of the base doesn't look very protective.


Won't they be encounter a lot of radiation, 6 months at a time?

This is an amazing idea!! Imagine how much research could get done up there. I mean as far as astronomy it would be like having a hubble telescope that you could just sit under and look up instead of sending commands up to a satelite. Also lower gravity could lead to some intereting research, as well as maybe finding new compounds or elements up there. Who knows, definately a step in the right direction!

JB