Now that the Apollo 11 PARTY is over and half-forgotten and people are looking for something else to distract them for a short while from the daily routine of their lives, I find myself thinking about how I am not reading any discussion about the pertinent question to NASA from Donald Trump.
Jim Bridenstine, the NASA Administrator, has what seems to be the perfect strategy for manned exploration of the solar system as humans wade around more in the ankle-deep pool of water around us.
In the year 1968, the United States of America began sending Men towards the planet Earth's moon.
By 1972, public interest peter'd out and manned exploration - to this day - effectively ended with Apollo 17.
That was 47 years ago.
The proposed mission to Mars is described by others I've read on the internet to be a much more complex procedure than Project Apollo. Everyone knows that.
So makes sense to me to use to the Moon, because it's only about 250,000 miles away from Earth compared to planet Mars which has a distance from Earth that varies from 34 and 64 million miles, according to Wikipedia.
A hell of lot less resources to bounce stuff on the surface of the Moon for testing before Beyond-Artemis astronauts (Athena, perhaps) have to depend on it for their lives.
But then there's the Donald Trump question: Go Further.
The PERFECT question to ask by any one who's actually *READ* my blog.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crew-capsule-designed-us-astronauts-222826276.html
Yahoo News!
Crew capsule designed to take US astronauts back to moon completed
The Independent July 20, 2019
Any way of going directly without landing on the moon? Is that a possibility?” the president asked Mr Bridenstine
Armageddon (1998)
(from internet transcript)
Dan Truman, NASA Executive Director: You, uh-- you might recognize the rig.
Harry Stamper: Yeah, well, I guess I should recognize it. It's my design. What'd you do? Steal a key to the patent office?
Dan Truman: Yeah, basically.
Harry Stamper: Let me get this straight. I got pulled off an oil rig, flown halfway around the world because you stole my drill design... couldn't read the plans right and did a piss-poor job of putting it together, is that it?
Ronald Quincy: Well, technically, patents don't apply to outer space.
Dan Truman: Just shut up, Quincy.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 5:29 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 22 July 2019
