NASA Not Just Aiming For The Moon… It Plans To Stay There
Agency Announces Plan For Lunar Base By 2020 It’s no secret NASA plans to return to the moon sometime in the next decade… but what it plans to do there is VERY interesting. Officials with the space agency announced Monday they plan to establish a base on the moon by 2020… with the eventual goal of sustaining a permanent human presence on the lunar surface.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been looking forward to this since I was a kid when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon. Some folks say we can’t afford to do this while we have homeless people and poor people etc.. I say we can’t afford to NOT do this. Someday this planet is not going to be able to sustain us and the sooner we start out for other stars the better. This piece of rock is getting awfully crowded, awfully fast.
Good for NASA! Here’s hoping for all possible successes in this new venture.
Comment by AProudVeteran — 20061206 @ 0908
Not to mentiont the fact that we will ALWAYS have poor, hungry, etc. and that, as has been proven repeatedly, the more money we throw at disfunctional people the MORE poor, hungry, etc. we’re going to end up with….
Comment by McGee — 20061206 @ 1044
Jackie Gleason sent Alice there years ago. Whats the big deal.
Comment by Chief — 20061206 @ 1749
It is the only way to go, We cannot stay anchored to this planet as our only home.
The only thing that will hold us back is Islam.
I don’t think we will make it to the Moon again.
Comment by Barry 0351 — 20061209 @ 0950