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

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: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:01AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:01AM (#357206) Journal

    Right, neither landed. Pioneer Venus landed after Venera 9 landed but was before Venera 15, which didn't land but did the radar studies alluded to by the OP. Hence I assumed that orbiting or flying by a planet would qualify as "doing" it.

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