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A permanent moon base is once again on the drawing boards of NASA after what to many has been a bitterly disappointing 34 year hiatus from manned space exploration.
Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
first set foot on the moon, and during subsequent visits over the next
three years, there was talk about taking the next step and planning a
mission to Mars by 1986. Then for some inexplicable reason, it all came
to a halt.
What we have got in the past 34 years is relatively miniscule progress
compared to the giant strides made in the 13 years between 1956, when
Russia launched Sputnik, and 1969 when Apollo 11 touched down. In fact
so unimpressive have the achievements been on the manned space travel
side of astronautics, that wild conspiracy theories have surfaced
postulating that the original lunar landings that we all watched live
on TV were actually staged hoaxes.
In 1968, the Stanley Kubrik - Arthur C Clarke vision of space travel
presented in 2001: A space Odyssey seemed plausible. Now the movie
seems like it should have been set in the year 2101.
Thus, it is gratifying to see that once again travel to the moon is on
the agenda and that a permanent lunar base is planned. However, the
lunar landings are not scheduled to begin until 2020. If the US was
able to get to the moon and back safely in 1969, why has the next
scheduled series of trips taken 51 years?
More importantly, why will it take another 14 years to get a manned
multinational landing mission in place when the original mission was
accomplished by the US alone from the first successful rocket launch to
the landing and return with far inferior technology in just 13
years?
David Bass
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