NASA shares details of lunar surface missions—and they’re pretty cool

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From Ars Technica:

"There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical that NASA will actually enact the Artemis Moon program to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024—Congress may not fund it, NASA's large, costly rocket remains far behind schedule, and history has been unkind to deep-space exploration programs since Apollo. However, should lunar landing missions occur during the next decade, they have the potential to go far beyond what NASA accomplished with the Apollo program half a century ago."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10 ... etty-cool/

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[pakarinen]

The cynic in me says that budget cuts will end all this or scale it so far back as to be a mere token.

I do hope you can mercilessly taunt me in a few years when I'm proven completely wrong.

[Peter802]

Thank you for sharing this link, very interesting.

[Thefatkitty]

Interesting, I can only hope it will happen. But this, really??

"One of the limitations on returning samples is the Orion spacecraft... the Orion spacecraft does not have any designated space for a box of sample rocks taken from the lunar surface"

Yeah, I think you'd want to fix that....

Thanks again and all the best,

[pakarinen]

Yeti cooler(s).