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Should We Skip Mars for Now and Go to the Moon Again?

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the build-a-space-elevator-on-the-moon dept.

Gaaark writes:

NASA seems hell bent to go to Mars, but can't afford to on its own.
Its international partners have no stomach for that — they would would rather return to our moon and build a base there for further exploration.

Doesn't going back to the moon make more sense? Build a base on the moon, and use its low gravity and possible water at the poles as propellant for further space exploration?

Why not the moon first?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/7/11868840/moon-return-journey-to-mars-nasa-congress-space-policy

Links:
From NASA itself, in 2008: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/series/moon/why_go_back.html
The all-knowing, ever-trustworthy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:37AM (#356775)

    Elon will take you there! Climb on His back and let His holy flatulence propel you! TO the MOON and BEYOND.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by takyon on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:45AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:45AM (#356778) Journal

    What are you, some kind of hipster troll? Musk is too popular for you to resist trolling but is delivering on his promises.

    inb4 fellatio response. Your playbook is stale and semen-crusted.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @09:52AM (#356781)

      hipster troll

      I hate popular things! Hate, hate, hate! Suck my pointy hair! Drool in it! Make me need a shower!