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Post by spock on Dec 4, 2003 21:02:23 GMT -5
I have been reading in the last few days speculation that Bush is going to announce new plans for travel and research on the moon. HOW COOL IS THAT?
I can remember in first grade watching a moon landing while we moaned about Sesame Street. The teacher said "you will remember this". She was right.
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Post by DeepSPace9 on Dec 5, 2003 10:46:33 GMT -5
I have been reading in the last few days speculation that Bush is going to announce new plans for travel and research on the moon. HOW COOL IS THAT? I can remember in first grade watching a moon landing while we moaned about Sesame Street. The teacher said "you will remember this". She was right. Good move on Bush's part, mainly because the Chinese are hoping to land a person on the moon by 2006. I wasn't alive in 1969, so this will be cool for me to see.
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Post by xkamelx on Dec 5, 2003 23:30:43 GMT -5
I to am excited about another moon landing. Like DS9, I want alive in 1969, but will be intrested in the /chinese landing. hopefully they will boradcast it on TV like they did in 1969.
i'll have my daughter watch it, for historical sake, she will be 7 by then about the age I was when the Challenger ship exploded which we saw on TV on elemtry school.
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Post by DeepSPace9 on Dec 6, 2003 0:14:22 GMT -5
To be honest, I want the chinese to fail miserable.
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Post by xkamelx on Dec 6, 2003 0:21:12 GMT -5
To be honest, I want the chinese to fail miserable. Why is that Mike? ~Myke
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Post by DeepSPace9 on Dec 6, 2003 11:05:26 GMT -5
Because the chinese stole the technology to get to the moon, and they cost me my job thats why.
Anytime the Chinese fail, it knocks them down a few pegs, and they are due to fail, sdeeing as how they never had to go through the trial and error that the US and Russia had to go through in the 1950's and 1960's.
China thinks they are god's gifts to the space program after they launcher their first astronaut into orbit. They need to go through the same failures that the US and Russia went through.
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Post by xkamelx on Dec 6, 2003 12:30:55 GMT -5
Thats a personal issue between China and you, so I ca't say I blame you, and would feel the same way if I were you.
And its true that they are using our trial and error to go the moon so they by no means Space Gods.
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Post by DeepSPace9 on Dec 6, 2003 12:37:47 GMT -5
I'm not hoping they have the deaths that we went through Myke, just that I want them to have some failures is all.
I am glad they succeeded because all they did was light a fire under Nasa's ass to get moving again. With the obsolete shuttle fleet getting overhauled right now(because of Columbia), Nasa now working on a shuttle replacement, something that wouldn;t have happened had Columbia not occured and the Chinese gotten into space.
To me the Chinese going to the moon is a longshot at best, but with Bush saying that he wants to go back as well, you can thank the Chinese for that as well.
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Post by xkamelx on Feb 11, 2004 1:41:57 GMT -5
Not only is President Bush planning on trips to the moon, now there is talk of the beginning of ideas and plans to actually go to Mars.
The moon is one thing, but I wonder how long untill the dream of Mars becomes reality?
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Post by valderra on Apr 5, 2004 8:55:38 GMT -5
I to am excited about another moon landing. Like DS9, I want alive in 1969, but will be intrested in the /chinese landing. hopefully they will boradcast it on TV like they did in 1969. i'll have my daughter watch it, for historical sake, she will be 7 by then about the age I was when the Challenger ship exploded which we saw on TV on elemtry school. ~Myke Oh... you sad sad humans... When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, that very first step for all mankind (and Saturniankind), I was watching with big (and tired) eyes. I remember, it was an all-night thing, where movies were shown on TV in between to shorten the wait for yet another life clip on that moon base... Oh yes, there is nothing like watching the real thing LIFE !! LOL And just a little note regarding the Chinese: I am pretty unbiased about other countries - coming from Saturn - so I neither want to see a nation fail nor get all blazé because they did succeed. Like it or not, the Chinese are a nation to be reckon with. They no longer are a third world country who need to bring in foreign labour to give them power station. They bring in foreign labour to teach their own people to do just as good a job as any western person can. And again, like it or not, one day we may just turn around and all of us speak Chinese... Just a little something to cheer everyone up. LOL
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Post by Nightcrawler on Jun 13, 2004 21:49:51 GMT -5
As long as it's not through invasion, or else there may not be a human race left to try...
I wasn't even around for the Apollo missions, but I remember Challenger. I saw it a bit before it hit the news stations because of having a satellite dish at the time. Really weird what stays with you...
I can hope that those my age or younger have the chance to see mankind return to the moon, possibly even make it the jumping off point for Mars. As for Mars, I'm hope to see manned missions to it within my lifetime, but I'm not holding my breath. Hopefully though, it happens within the lifetimes of those that were about 20-ish when man walked on the moon. It would be fitting for them to see man go from the Moon to Mars, as they were darker event going on during that period.
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Post by xkamelx on Jun 13, 2004 22:07:42 GMT -5
Hopefully though, it happens within the lifetimes of those that were about 20-ish when man walked on the moon. It would be fitting for them to see man go from the Moon to Mars, as they were darker event going on during that period. Very well said, and I agree. That would be very cool for people to be able to witness such events, it's almost like someone witnising the invention of the wheel, then the Ford Model T being introduced.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Jun 13, 2004 22:35:45 GMT -5
And by making the moon the jumping off point, you don't need SRB's (Solid Rocket Boosters) to launch a shuttle type craft. It won't take anywhere near as much to get it moving as it would if launching it within Earth's atmosphere.
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Post by xkamelx on Jun 14, 2004 0:39:45 GMT -5
And by making the moon the jumping off point, you don't need SRB's (Solid Rocket Boosters) to launch a shuttle type craft. It won't take anywhere near as much to get it moving as it would if launching it within Earth's atmosphere. Exactly, once we decide to do that, our first manned mission to mars won't be far behind And one can only imagine once we decide to use Mars as a jump off point. .. .
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Post by Nightcrawler on Jun 14, 2004 1:48:37 GMT -5
Beyond that?
The rest of our solar system, and after hanging out there for a bit, we'll get out there...
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