by Gerard 62 Replies latest social current
Now NASA say the moon is inside the earth’s atmosphere 🤣🤣😁
they have never been to the moon and never will. They lie.
every picture taken on Mars is a lie. They never landed on Mars they are deceiving everyone
they say they have a rover over ten years old still driving round never breaks down, and now they say they have a helicopter flying on Mars sending pictures back🤣🤣🤣
Mikejw. You're having a giraffe (laugh), right?
If you're serious, how do you know?
Honestly my first thought is why ? The money that just this one mission will cost could treat all those Americans who can't afford health cover. Or provide wells for the people who are having to drink dirty water in 3rd world countries . Or clean up the oceans, the list goes on .
Why not fix the problems here on earth before we go and mess up somewhere else.
Jan
"Why not fix the problems here on earth before we go and mess up somewhere else."
Because there will never be a time when all problems on Earth are fixed. Fix a problem, new problem pops up.
NASA is currently 0.48% of the US budget.
If you want to get upset at waste....The cost of the Iraq war was around $2 Trillion. Talk about pissing money to the wind......
If in 2002, if someone had proposed a $2 trillion plan over the next 20 years for say Universal Healthcare as you mentioned..oh the cries and wailing and gnashing of teeth from Republicans and lectures about fiscal responsibility and calling such a plan "socialism " would have been endless. Destroying the country they would have said.
But....such money was apparently available for the clusterfuck that was Iraq.
I am confident that the Artemis I Mission will be a success and that humans will within several years land on the moon's south pole, and that later humans will begin the process of creating a base on the moon. [See https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/ .] I am also confident that humans will eventually land on Mars. I intend to live long enough to see all of that happen - and I intend to live beyond that.
Tonight I saw for the second time the science fiction movie (from the year 2015) called "The Martian", except that this time I saw the "Extended Edition" of the movie. The movie is excellent! It has a very high degree of scientific accuracy (with one only a few scientific inaccuracies in it). [See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film) .] It is the best science fiction movie about Mars ever! It is so encouraging and hopeful.
Though the Bible (at Psalms 115:16, as paraphrased by me) says that 'the heavens belong to Yahweh, but that the Earth he has given to humankind', I know that eventually humans will be also be living on the Earth's moon and on Mars, not just on Earth. I look forward to that happening. It will happen because of some humans embracing a form of Humanism (which includes embracing science) and striving to make it happen. Oh joy of joy.
Today at a large book sale of the local library I purchased a copy of the book (copyright 2013) called Mission To Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration by Buzz Aldrin. Mr. Aldrin is one of NASA's astronauts who walked on Earth's moon about 50 years ago.
For the naysayers that don`t beleive man has set foot on the moon .
There hasn`t just been one mission to the moon by Astronauts with two men but six missions equaling 12 men setting foot on the moon over a period of time.
Do you honestly think other space age nations such as the Chinese ,Russians ,Indians , European space Agency etc ,etc. would sit idly by and let America get away with such a fraud ?
Of course not they would let the whole world know it was all fake .
But they don`t ,why ? because they all know its fact.
The program is a strange mix of having a super sized lander, fit for Mars, land on the moon (after having flown empty from Earth).
It takes fanatical dedication to make it all work, A leaky gasket stopped the whole train. Money spend in the right place. we need more technical excellence not more and better payed welfare recipients.
On October 6, 2022 (yesterday) NASA posted an update at https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/tag/artemis-i/ , called "Inspections Underway for Rocket, Spacecraft Before Setting Launch Date". The following is something it says which I am very glad to read.
"Work will also include charging the CubeSats that are equipped to be re-charged and have elected to do so. Inside Orion, work will include replenishing the specimens and batteries for the biology investigations riding within the capsule, as well as recharging the batteries associated with the crew seat accelerometers and space radiation experiments."
I am glad NASA is doing those tasks since those experiments and scientific data collection equipment are to me a very important part of the Artemis I mission. However it looks like the batteries of some CubeSats won't be recharged (since apparently some are not equipped for recharging), and it is too bad that no mention is made of those batteries being replaced.
'NASA is targeting the next launch attempt of the Artemis I mission for Monday, Nov. 14" according to https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/ and according to https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/10/12/nasa-sets-date-for-next-launch-attempt-for-artemis-i-moon-mission/ . Besides the above about the Artemis launch https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/ also says that "CAPSTONE team members successfully executed an operation to stop the spacecraft’s spin on Friday, Oct. 7, clearing a major hurdle in returning the spacecraft to normal operations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPSTONE says the following about CAPSTONE.
"CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a lunar orbiter that will test and verify the calculated orbital stability planned for the Lunar Gateway space station. The spacecraft is a 12-unit CubeSat that will also test a navigation system that will measure its position relative to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) without relying on ground stations. It was launched on 28 June 2022, and will spend over six months flying around the Moon.
... The Gateway is planned to be placed in a novel lunar orbit that has not been used previously, where it is expected to serve as a communications hub, science laboratory, short-term habitation module, and holding area for rovers and other robots.[3] Gateway is slated to play a major role in NASA's Artemis program.
Computer simulations indicate that this particular orbit – a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) – offers long-term stability with low propellant requirements for orbital station-keeping,[4] by using a precise balance point in the gravities of Earth and the Moon that offers a stable trajectory.[5] "
That is very exciting to me.
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Last night was a great time to see Mars in the sky in a position which was about the same line of sight as seeing the moon. It we be in about the same alignment and position tonight (October 15, 2022) also. See https://www.space.com/moon-visits-mars-friday-oct-14-2022 in order to know where to look and how to identify Mars in the sky. Mars is close enough that we can see with the unaided eye. I saw it that way and through my 10X magnification binoculars. Both ways it looks orange. I was excited that I could see Mars those ways and know for sure that I was indeed looking at Mars.
Using my binoculars I even clearly saw craters on the moon. They were definitely craters for they were clearly visible circular depressions. I was thrilled to see such with my own binoculars.
Some day there will be humans both on Earth's moon and on Mars.
