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Posted on: Sample Return or Rover?
at 08/05/2009 11:34pm

Like others have said, I would figure a sample return mission is the next step after a rover mission. Send a rover, get ... more(+)

Like others have said, I would figure a sample return mission is the next step after a rover mission. Send a rover, get data, then do a sample return mission. close(-)

Posted on: Did the moon lander have enough fuel to get off th...
at 06/27/2009 8:39am

To the original poster:

You do realize that Apollo 11 wasn't the only mission to land on the moon, right?

The last ... more(+)

To the original poster:

You do realize that Apollo 11 wasn't the only mission to land on the moon, right?

The last sentence of your post shows you clearly have no clue what you are talking about. None... close(-)

Posted on: What was / were your favourite Apollo Mission(s)??...
at 06/24/2009 8:57pm

I would first like to thank you guys for reminiscing about the Apollo missions. Being born in 1981, Apollo was long ... more(+)

I would first like to thank you guys for reminiscing about the Apollo missions. Being born in 1981, Apollo was long forgotten with my generation (sadly). I still remember my third grade class being taught about planets and the solar system (that would have made me.... 8 years old ) and ever since that day in Mrs Allsip's classroom I have had a distinct interest in our existence. I believe I grasped the knowledge better than other children my age. I still remember to this day asking myself, "Well if there are all of these planets and "things out there" that we just don't know about, how can we know for sure that we are the only "people" around?"

Things take on a whole different shape when you are eight years old.

As I grew up, and made it to high school in the late 90's (yeah I'm still a baby I guess ), I remember being awed by a simple Astronomy class that I took as an elective. We learned real basic information, such as how to point out the Big Dipper, and what constellations were. Exoplanets were being discovered around this same time and their discoveries, plus the astronomy class really opened my mind to wondering about our existence in the Universe, and wondering what exactly we were seeing as we looked up at the night sky.

That high school astronomy class prompted me to do research on the Apollo program. I can honestly say that my favorite Apollo missions were ALL OF THEM. It is absolutely fascinating to me what the country experienced slightly before my time. I can only imagine how people felt as the first orbit of Earth by a manned spacecraft took place, how it felt to experience humanity's first steps on another heavenly body and how it felt when lives were on the line and how everyone dealt with the uncertainty of it all. Apollo pulled together humanity unlike anything of its time. Of course, JFK had a lot to do with it, but the Apollo missions themselves were what brought everyone together. It was an experience that if mentioned to anyone living at the time, they remember, and remember it well.

I hope during my lifetime something happens that resembles Apollo and all its glory. Planned missions to Mars and the moon should reinvigorate public appeal for space exploration. I just live in a generation where we are blind to what it means for humanity to be stuck on the Earth. You can tell anyone that there are tons of near-Earth objects that can produce extinction events, to which people now reply, "If it happens, it happens". It's mostly sensationalism to the general populace. However, what if there IS something we can do? People don't think of humanity as just another species. People don't think of humanity as anything, really. We live in a very selfish culture nowadays where things that matter to the individual are way more important than things that should matter to the collective. Humanity has shown what it can do in the face of adversity though (Apollo is a great example of this in action) and so maybe adversity is what is needed to get us off this rock and around the galaxy.

I thank you once again for your time and for sharing your experiences. close(-)

Posted on: A difficult question.....
at 04/21/2009 5:31pm

No, space has no bounds. If you reached the theoretical end of the universe, you would just become the new end. Or ... more(+)

No, space has no bounds. If you reached the theoretical end of the universe, you would just become the new end. Or beginning, depending on how you view the water in the glass. close(-)

Commented on: NASA Recruits 'Planet 51' Actor Dwayne Johnson to Spread Message
at 2009-11-20 18:34:22

Can you smellllllllll what the Rock is blabbering on about?

Commented on: Astronauts Breeze Through Mission's First Spacewalk
at 2009-11-19 18:22:09

You wife sounds very selfish. lol

Commented on: PETA Protests NASA Monkey Radiation Experiment
at 2009-11-19 18:05:32

PETA is such a PITA.

Commented on: NASA to Try to Free Stuck Mars Rover Again
at 2009-11-18 22:17:10

I really hope the rover makes it out of its "rut".

Commented on: Broken Urine Recycler May Affect Space Mission
at 2009-11-12 23:30:27

Marketfog:

You are typing but all I'm reading is @&#^#^@*#@^#*#@^@#^&(^. People are so quick to damn NASA and never ... more(+)

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