Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo...
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:41AM
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> Why the Moon?
We need to poke it with a stick every now and then, so that it knows we're still here.
At this point no one can do a manned Moon landing. That technology has been lost. US doing a landing is a way to reclaim that technology, and that can be useful to start building up some semi-permanent presence closer to the Moon, boosting research and eventually some kind of industry in cislunar space.
> all you (the US) can do in a international consortium to "Moon" is give away the crown jewels in knowhow and tech
From the POV of people involved at the scientific/engineering level, that may very well be the point. The less jingoism is taken upwell, the better for everyone.
We need to poke it with a stick every now and then, so that it knows we're still here.
At this point no one can do a manned Moon landing. That technology has been lost. US doing a landing is a way to reclaim that technology, and that can be useful to start building up some semi-permanent presence closer to the Moon, boosting research and eventually some kind of industry in cislunar space.
> all you (the US) can do in a international consortium to "Moon" is give away the crown jewels in knowhow and tech
From the POV of people involved at the scientific/engineering level, that may very well be the point. The less jingoism is taken upwell, the better for everyone.