Started by Nostromo, Aug 27, 2016, 03:31:59 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 12, 2017, 12:59:25 PMhttps://www.americasuncommonsense.com/1-apollo-17-diary-of-the-12th-man/I thought this might be of interest to some. It's the diary of Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. Only a couple of chapters actually released, though. President Trump Directs NASA to Return to the Moon, Then Aim for MarsQuote"Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmitt] become one of the last Americans to land on the moon," Trump said. "Today, we pledge that he will not be the last.""The directive I'm signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said during the ceremony. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint — we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."
Quote"Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmitt] become one of the last Americans to land on the moon," Trump said. "Today, we pledge that he will not be the last.""The directive I'm signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said during the ceremony. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint — we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Dec 19, 2017, 01:46:30 AMhttps://twitter.com/WIRED/status/942924707720024066
Quote from: SM on Dec 15, 2017, 09:28:58 PMUntil he gives NASA more money it's just more Trump bluster. Bush said much the same thing in 2004 but at least he said he was going to get congress to increase their budget (don't know if he succeeded).
Quote"Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring," Musk wrote in his Instagram post. "Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel."The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit."
QuoteAkatsuki (also known as PLANET-C and Venus Climate Orbiter) is a Japanese mission that launched almost eight years ago, in 2010. It missed its first attempt to orbit Venus on December 7, 2010 due to the failure of its orbital insertion rocket. It was only on December 7, 2015, after several years of wandering around the Sun, that Akatsuki succeeded in placing itself in orbit around the enigmatic planet. Even though the new orbit of Akatsuki is distant and highly elongated, a large portion of the original science objectives may still be achieved.
