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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out; as we've seen before, there's often a long path from the president providing a directive like this and actually
by pythonaut_16 9y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out; as we've seen before, there's often a long path from the president providing a directive like this and actually getting traction and accomplishing the mission.
Still, this is exciting news for space exploration. I've always wondered why everyone is so eager to jump directly to Mars and the asteroid belt when we've still done relatively little on the moon.
- nradov 9y agoThere's nothing of commercial value on the Moon (Helium-3 mining is entirely speculative) and the low gravity would probably make it unfit for human colonization even if the radiation and life support problems could be solved. So the only point of doing more manned missions to the Moon would be just to gain experience before going other places. (Geology research and other basic science could be accomplished far more cheaply with unmanned probes now.)