NASA Briefing Previews Lunar Mission
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During a televised news briefing from NASA Headquarters on Thursday, Aug. 22, panelists discussed the agency’s next mission to the moon, and the first lunar mission launching from the Virginia coast. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission is scheduled to launch at 11:27 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. Data from the mission will provide unprecedented information about the environment around the moon and give scientists a better understanding of other planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond.
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NASA Briefing Previews Lunar Mission
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49 Comments
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Can we land another human on the Mun?
2020 or so.
They just need to find a way to shield people from deadly solar radiation. 😉
No such thing 😛
We’re going to Mars in 2020, we could go to the Moon right now, just Obama (I believe) Cancelled the funding for the Lunar Program
why orbit the moon
Moar boosters
Less sunlight, not designed for lower temperatures.
@Daniel that never happened.
I’ve been a part of something to this extent. It makes everyone else a little more comfortable, speaking afterwards,
no a private company is going to mars in 2020 I think and making a permanent habitat
John Glensfield COME ON DOWN !!!!
I wish a scientist from NASA would be willing to correspond to me.
Interstellar voyage(s).
Make it happen.
So uh, when is NASA gonna launch the Moon Bases programs?
Blah blah blah I pretty sure we put a man on the moon why the hell would I care about another satellite in orbit
Curiosity is nothing? I don’t think so.
The woman that spoke in the beginning was so nervous that I got nervous myself.
But we could just go to the moon right now, build all the Propulsion systems, fuel tanks, etc.
is she about to cry?
I know, this kind of info should be taught in Schools, the NASA, ESA, and CSA get no where near enough media coverage.
On TV you get the media talking about “Oh my god! Kim Kardashian wearing a GAP T‑Shirt!” It’s never anything like ” European Space Agency start building the first Moonbase”
Only if they’re using the ROCKOMAX tanks!
why not just take our space station to the moon and let it orbit it
Doing that would require a huuuuge amount of delta‑v to get it there, establish orbit and there are limited orbital inclinations around the Moon (almost typed Mun, lols) that are actually stable.
No such thing as too much KSP.…
Solutions to the zero‑g problem are less than ideal, also — running on a treadmill while bungie-corded to the deck may keep your legs from atrophying, but there’s a lot more to deal with than just that. Some way to simulate gravity on the long-duration coast phase of the mission would fix a number of them, but they you’re inside a giant spinning tin can for months at a time…
Ever since NASA came over to YouTube for their Multimedia videos, for one thing I can no longer download the videos. Secondly, the latency on YouTube for me on WinXP is very annoying. i.e. a press conference 1hr video turns into an audio due to the difficulty in watching it with the latency! Wish they’d (NASA) switch back to their own video posting, as it were.
it wasn’t designed to leave Earth orbit. For one thing there’s no radiation protection, nor traditional flight controls. It simply remains in a constant falling motion with a high forward speed to avoid any actual descent.
Good points; I had forgotten the radiation hazards. LEO is mostly safe from that sort of thing.
yes with SLS and Orion. but not for another 10 years or so 🙁
its been too long
“It simply remains in a constant falling motion with a high forward speed to avoid any actual descent.”
in other words, orbit!
he cancled the constelation program. but we still have the SLS and Oritn. and we currently do not have the tec to get the the moon. we will in about 10 years give or take.
exactly!
We do have then tech to get to the Moon, just not the funding.
We went to the moon in 1969, a long time ago, we had the tech to get there, why wouldn’t we now?
In short, that’s the answer to your question (and you can investigate from there further, as this is only part 2): watch?v=MalYSn_qIU4
i think what you mean is we have the know how. we have no rockets with enough delta V to get men to the moon. without a better rocket, it is impossible.
Thats just the start, your gov. cares about nasa again. That very good
same reason as a bullet spins for accuracy
We actually have several rockets that can send a human to the lunar surface, if you aren’t concerned about soft landing or getting him/her back.
yes but you relize how stupid that is right?
Oh I realise it isn’t a politically wise move and not good for PR, I was just stating that to say “we have no rockets with enough DeltaV to get men to he moon” deserves some caveats.
Hes got a weird head idk…
yes but it was inplied that they had to be returned safly to the earth. we do have rockets capible of getting one or possibly two men to lunar orbit or the surface but they would not be making the return trip.
Will the Ladee be destroyed in October?
Are there really still idiots who think apollo didn’t land? They won’t believe nasa but they’ll eat up an idea that was first thought up in a tabloid in the 70s. Wow.
To be fair. watching this whole mission preview, Apollo features nowhere. This makes me wonder what the Apollo program achieved except “inspiring” a new generation. I think that after 6 successful manned landings, future lunar programs would leverage heavily on the first footprints and beaten path. This is far from the case. That said, I do not doubt that man landed in 1969. No. I am quite certain 😉
For the people asking about the technology used in the first landing. 1) There was no backup for anything, Buzz Aldren ended up using a pen in a circuit breaker to get them off the moon, If he didn’t they most likely would have died there. 2) This time you probably should be able to do more than just pick up some rocks and bring them back considering the cost involved. 3) They need some way to deal with the lower gravity issues on the human body.
I doubt I will get an answer but I am curious if NASA has considered making vehicles that can be easily altered and reused in cases like the moon where we may return or even create a permanent presence there. In simple terms an erector set style vehicle.