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posted by martyb on Saturday December 09 2017, @01:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-IS-rocket-science dept.

ArsTechnica has a great story about NASA's early space program and how the tragic fire during Apollo 1's testing was a turning point for the program.

As Gus Grissom said, "The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." He was one of the astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday December 09 2017, @03:32AM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday December 09 2017, @03:32AM (#607589) Journal

    Once we have the ability to "live off the land" on Mars or the Moon, those places become floating balls of money. As long as you don't go crazy living indoors or in a spacesuit 100% of the time, you could live there indefinitely. Mining and industry will mostly be automated, although you might have to do some setup or troubleshooting. There will simply be a point where an initial investment can build a self-sustaining colony on these rocks, which means someone (private/corporate) will do it. The Outer Space Treaty will be revised or ignored, perhaps with some agreement to look for life in underground oceans.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @04:06AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @04:06AM (#607607)

    There is no "living off the land" on the Moon. Basically anything life needs like nitrogen and carbon are missing and will forever need to be imported from elsewhere. While there is some water frozen in craters at the poles, the amount is not large enough to support a sizable population/industries for any length of time, meaning that hydrogen and oxygen will need to be imported too.