But, Plutocrats are myopic when it comes to money. They are destroying Earth, why not Earth's balance with the moon. Dead carbon sinks in the way of global coral reefs should be at the top of the USA budget, not forgotten as a drag on USA profiteering ventures.
There is absolutely no evidence that it is safe to mine the moon, the only orbiting satellite of Earth. Who cares though, right?
Where is the money from the morons that want to mine the moon? I haven't heard of the pre-payments for such an idiotic venture! Why does the USA have to pay for it?
February 12, 2018
By Mike Wall
...The newly unveiled request (click here) gives some more details about NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon, a focus that President Donald Trump made official with the signing of "Space Policy Directive 1" in December.
There is absolutely no evidence that it is safe to mine the moon, the only orbiting satellite of Earth. Who cares though, right?
Where is the money from the morons that want to mine the moon? I haven't heard of the pre-payments for such an idiotic venture! Why does the USA have to pay for it?
February 12, 2018
By Mike Wall
...The newly unveiled request (click here) gives some more details about NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon, a focus that President Donald Trump made official with the signing of "Space Policy Directive 1" in December.
If all goes according to plan, the agency will launch a "power and propulsion space tug," a component of NASA's planned outpost in near-moon space, in 2022. And astronauts will launch on a mission around the moon, using the agency's Orion capsule and Space Launch System megarocket, in 2023.
The budget request "reflects the administration's confidence that America will lead the way back to the moon and take the next giant leap from where we made that first small step for humanity nearly 50 years ago," NASA acting administrator Robert Lightfoot said today in a "State of NASA" address at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama....
