Originally posted by crackerjack
Has Russia still got all their archives and blue prints of the CCCP days? Wonder if NASA has asked the Russians if they could borrow some space junk sitting around rusting away in Russia.

Originally posted by Matthew5012
just think what nasa could do with all the money the US have spent "speading peace" in the middle east!!!

just for the record i dont think they ever went to the moon in the first place, i just dont see how they got round the problem of the radiation.

Originally posted by ngchunter
The same way they get around it today; proper shielding and minimization of exposure. The particle radiation contained in the van allen belts is best blocked by fibrous material similar to cardboard,

December 7, 2005: Every lunar morning, when the sun first peeks over the dusty soil of the moon after two weeks of frigid lunar night, a strange storm stirs the surface.

The next time you see the moon, trace your finger along the terminator, the dividing line between lunar night and day. That's where the storm is. It's a long and skinny dust storm, stretching all the way from the north pole to the south pole, swirling across the surface, following the terminator as sunrise ceaselessly sweeps around the moon.

Never heard of it? Few have. But scientists are increasingly confident that the storm is real.