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I was thinking the same thing. The technology and science that could come out of a mission like that would be great! We’d be the First Nation to retrieve someth

I was thinking the same thing. The technology and science that could come out of a mission like that would be great! We’d be the First Nation to retrieve something far away from earth that belonged to us. A stepping stone for future mishaps on other planets.

fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
"We choose to go (back) to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- pryce 7y ago
  Millions of people have looked to the moon for tens of thousands of years, and wondered if someday, a human being might walk on it. A truly transcendent category of goal, even if a large part of the underlying motive was pretty obviously demonstrating American superiority over the Communist 'other'. I don't really put retrieving the 'Snoopy' module in this same category.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    I think you may have missed the joke.
    - pryce 7y ago
      I did, thanks. EDIT: for anyone interested in the history of the Apollo 10 mission, its commander (and only crew-member remaining living) Thomas Stafford also went to Moscow to serve as a pallbearer in the state funeral given to the Soyuz 11 crew after the tragedy, the only human beings known to have died in space.
imglorp 7y ago
Not only the tech developed, but also studying the retrieved artifact: we don't have a ton of hardware that's spent 50 years in space. What happens to all this stuff in a vacuum getting radiated, baked and frozen that long. Metals, hoses and gaskets, insulators and wires, semiconductors, dielectrics etc. If we're going to colonize the solar system, we have to learn how to build hardware to last in that environment.

fuzz4lyfe 7y ago

"We choose to go (back) to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

pryce 7y ago
Millions of people have looked to the moon for tens of thousands of years, and wondered if someday, a human being might walk on it. A truly transcendent category of goal, even if a large part of the underlying motive was pretty obviously demonstrating American superiority over the Communist 'other'. I don't really put retrieving the 'Snoopy' module in this same category.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  I think you may have missed the joke.
  - pryce 7y ago
    I did, thanks. EDIT: for anyone interested in the history of the Apollo 10 mission, its commander (and only crew-member remaining living) Thomas Stafford also went to Moscow to serve as a pallbearer in the state funeral given to the Soyuz 11 crew after the tragedy, the only human beings known to have died in space.

imglorp 7y ago

Not only the tech developed, but also studying the retrieved artifact: we don't have a ton of hardware that's spent 50 years in space. What happens to all this stuff in a vacuum getting radiated, baked and frozen that long. Metals, hoses and gaskets, insulators and wires, semiconductors, dielectrics etc. If we're going to colonize the solar system, we have to learn how to build hardware to last in that environment.