The Nobel Intent article ‘What if we made a moonbase and no one turned up?’ brings up some compelling thoughts. These include: Is the lack of budget increases from NASA going to affect the objectives of the program? Will building the moonbase divert funds from getting to Mars? Can we research the Mars voyage in [...]
NASA announced plans to work with other countries to put a permanent base on the moon by 2024. This raises an interesting question: Who owns the moon? Apparently there’s a legal agreement called The Outer Space Treaty that says no one can own any part of space, including the moon. But I have to think [...]
There has been a lot in the news about NASA’s proposed Mooncamp. Here are some links: “NASA may be going to the same old moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday that it’s going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there.” [...]
Lockheed Martin and Boeing’s $2 billion Orion rocket-launch venture is expected to bring up to 700 high-paying jobs to the Denver area of Colorado, executives said Friday.When combined with new jobs from Lockheed’s recent $8.2 billion NASA contract to build a next-generation spacecraft, the new United Launch Alliance joint venture could vault Colorado’s private-sector aerospace [...]
Go to any hobby shop, and model rocket kits line the shelves. Complete with instructions, building materials, even paint, these one-stop-shopping kits are a young rocket enthusiast’s dream. After a few hours of concentration and lots of glue, what was once a heap of tubes, plastic parts and miniature motors is now a rocket ready [...]
The most powerful radiotelescope yet devised is to be built on the Moon, under plans being put together by Nasa for its 2018 lunar mission.Mike Griffin, the head of the US space agency, said the construction of a telescope is being “factored into” the mission. It is intended to push forward the exploration of space [...]