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but there was no reason and no benefit to mothballing manned space flightDon't make this a "omg, the US space program is doing horrible". It's not. It just was refocused and Manned Space Flight took a step backwards, but that was a very long time coming. The Shuttle program was old. There was a growing dislike for the design of the Orbiter and the safety issues, post Columbia. NASA really wanted a vehicle back on top of the stack and the orbiters were hitting their useful design life.
but there was no reason and no benefit to mothballing manned space flight
but NASA particulars aside, i do think this is a 'tip of the spear'
in what ways are we forward looking in this country
transportation? infrastructure? energy? education?
how's puerto rico? how about Flint's water? etc etc
we as a nation seemed content with only fighting cultural wars that were won in the 60s
The idea of harvesting a clean and efficient form of energy from the Moon has stimulated science fiction and fact in recent decades. Unlike Earth, which is protected by its magnetic field, the Moon has been bombarded with large quantities of Helium-3 by the solar wind. It is thought that this isotope could provide safer nuclear energy in a fusion reactor, since it is not radioactive and would not produce dangerous waste products.
The Apollo programme's own geologist, Harrison Schmidt, has repeatedly made the argument for Helium-3 mining, whilst Gerald Kulcinski at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is another leading proponent. He has created a small reactor at the Fusion Technology Institute, but so far it has not been possible to create the helium fusion reaction with a net power output.
Boo.more important to force everyone to buy $800 a month health insurance with a $3,000 a year deductible.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/15/c_137745115.htm
CHONGQING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A cotton seed, carried to the moon by China's Chang'e-4 probe, is the first ever to sprout on the moon, according to scientists of a mini biosphere experiment on Tuesday.
After making the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, China's Chang'e-4 mission pioneered the first mini biosphere experiment on the moon.
The Chang'e-4 probe carried the seeds of cotton, rape, potato and arabidopsis, as well as eggs of the fruit fly and some yeast, to form a simple mini biosphere, according to a team led by scientists from Chongqing University in southwest China.
Images sent back by the probe showed that a cotton sprout had grown well, though no other plants were found growing.