That is what the Moon is waiting for.....
3 Aug 2009 21:23:31 UTC
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Youngsters may not think this is long waited but those of us that watched the first landing 40 years ago didn't think we would have to wait until we are 70 to see anything started up there.
So I guess the closest we will get to the Moon is looking at it from the Earth.
Back in the 1970's most of us thought there would be a space station on the Moon......not just one circling Earth only a couple hundred miles up.
We have satellites up there now that look like stars.
That is what the Moon is waiting for.....
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If we want to return to the moon properly (which was denied us during the 60's race which lacked long term planning... Ahh! Glory... and not to get too political 'exceptionalism' ... it serves no purpose) we could take it one step further and have a station orbiting the moon with reusable landing craft. :-) NASA can do it, it just needs stable funding..
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
I'm waiting for them to build
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I'm waiting for them to build a casino on the moon. And how bout some offroad dune buggying on the moon? Now that would be an extreme sport!
A dvd is out on the apollo
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A dvd is out on the apollo missions. Here is an interesting one for someone's collection
For All Mankind
Who knows it could inspire whole new generation..
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Yes I have been hoping they
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Yes I have been hoping they would get inspired since the late 1970's so oldtimers like me could have went up there long before today.
If I am lucky I will just get to watch again and maybe even see one small step onto Mars.