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NASA Selects Team to Build Lunar Lander
Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 30, 2005 (Phone: 202/358-1979/5241) RELEASE: 05-289 NASA SELECTS TEAM TO BUILD LUNAR LANDER NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Doug Cooke today announced the selection of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., to lead a team in the development of a lunar lander spacecraft. The lander is tentatively planned for launch as early as 2010. It will demonstrate the ability for precision landings at targeted locations on the moon; evaluate landing zone environment; and determine if lunar resources can support a sustained human presence. "This mission will have as a primary objective to determine whether there is water-ice in the permanently dark areas within craters in the moon's polar regions. The existence of water-ice has important implications in living off the land when we return with human explorers," Cooke said. "The lunar lander will test critical automated descent and precision landing capabilities needed for human landings, including surface hazard avoidance during landing. The discoveries from this mission and the data it collects will play a vital role in humans returning to the moon and living there for extended periods," he added. The Robotic Lunar Exploration Program (RLEP) program is intended to provide a series of robotic missions to support human exploration. The lunar lander spacecraft is the second RLEP mission. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission developed under the RLEP. The LRO is being built at Goddard and is scheduled for launch in 2008. The orbiter will carry six instruments that will map and photograph the lunar surface, search for surface ice deposits, and investigate space radiation. For information about NASA and the new era of space exploration on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/home -end- |
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In the meantime, why not just allow the deployment of the already
existing LUNAR-A mission that's been on hold for more than a decade? ~ Life on Venus includes your basic Township, Bridge & Tarmac: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm Russian/Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm A few other sub-topics of interest by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm |
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Brad Guth wrote:
In the meantime, why not just allow the deployment of the already existing LUNAR-A mission that's been on hold for more than a decade? Fortunately NASA doesn't have to listen to frothing pseudoscience usenet kooks such as yourself, guth. [guth links flushed] -- Official Associate AFA-B Vote Rustler "The original human being was a female hermaphrodite with both male and female genitalia." "Human beings CAN NOT live in a solar system without a sun with a ferrite core and a planet without a solid iron core." -- Alexa Cameron, Kook of the Year 2004 |
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Our moon by day is in fact "hotter than holy hell".
I'd been referring to various substances as per those having been situated or sequestered within a sufficient vacuum. However, if that vacuum so happens to include a crystal clear surround as that of an insulative layer of radon gas isn't going to exactly make such items any cooler, that plus of what has been said about the extremely hot and nasty particles that coexist throughout the Van Allen zone/expanse are of what's further suggesting that it can get and sustain such small particles(various atoms and most certainly a good dusting worth of iron) as per being extremely hot while you're situated within such a near vacuum as a fully solar/cosmic exposure mode of being essentially naked, and especially humanly hot and nasty while having to trek yourself across a less than 5 g/cm2 worth of an extremely dark moon-dust surface-tension, that's of all things being its hot and nasty self is also a bit photon reactive to boot (especially as derived off the items of higher density, like starting off with basalt at 3.1 g/cm3) which supposedly accomplishes a terrific job of generating them hard-X-rays. Perhaps the lunar atmospheric element of the sodium element in of itself is even a wee bit hotter than we'd previously understood, and certainly of a greater population/m3 than we'd previously thought, and perhaps especially of those sodium atoms as having ranged more than 900,000 km away from the lunar deck by such solar winds had to have been individually "hotter than holy hell". Since we still have absolutely nothing that's interactively sharing scientific squat from the surface of our moon, perhaps certain folks can best inform us village idiots as to what the temperature actually is of the solar winds (100 ~ 2400 km/s), thus putting into perspective as to what a supposedly sparsely populated atmosphere of our moon might have to offer? Seems we're being told to assume that such hot and nasty particles as being closely associated with the nearly naked surface of the moon will not in any measurable way degrade nor much less penetrate a given moonsuit that's being wide-field (360 x 180) exposed to whatever's physical that's coming along at good velocity, plus wide-spectrum radiated upon from every which way but lose, and that's having to include from the bottom up. Thus it's not just speaking about thermal conduction and radiated thermal energy as it's involving what DNA/RNA hot and nasty about being anywhere near the solar illuminated portions of or moon. I'm no expert wizard of Oz but, seems like the environment of our moon (especially by day) offers a perfectly good reason for using robust robots, and/or the sorts of LUNAR-A impact probes that are DNA/RNA deficient to start off with. ~ Life on Venus includes your basic Township, Bridge & Tarmac: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm Russian/Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm A few other sub-topics of interest by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm |
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Brad Guth wrote: Our moon by day is in fact "hotter than holy hell". I'd been referring to various substances as per those having been situated or sequestered within a sufficient vacuum. However, if that vacuum so happens to include a crystal clear surround as that of an insulative layer of radon gas isn't going to exactly make such items any cooler, that plus of what has been said about the extremely hot and nasty particles that coexist throughout the Van Allen zone/expanse are of what's further suggesting that it can get and sustain such small particles(various atoms and most certainly a good dusting worth of iron) as per being extremely hot while you're situated within such a near vacuum as a fully solar/cosmic exposure mode of being essentially naked, and especially humanly hot and nasty while having to trek yourself across a less than 5 g/cm2 worth of an extremely dark moon-dust surface-tension, that's of all things being its hot and nasty self is also a bit photon reactive to boot (especially as derived off the items of higher density, like starting off with basalt at 3.1 g/cm3) which supposedly accomplishes a terrific job of generating them hard-X-rays. Perhaps the lunar atmospheric element of the sodium element in of itself is even a wee bit hotter than we'd previously understood, and certainly of a greater population/m3 than we'd previously thought, and perhaps especially of those sodium atoms as having ranged more than 900,000 km away from the lunar deck by such solar winds had to have been individually "hotter than holy hell". WOW! Is that close to being wicked hot? Since we still have absolutely nothing that's interactively sharing scientific squat from the surface of our moon, perhaps certain folks can best inform us village idiots as to what the temperature actually is of the solar winds (100 ~ 2400 km/s), thus putting into perspective as to what a supposedly sparsely populated atmosphere of our moon might have to offer? 100^2400km/s? try moron not idiot Seems we're being told to assume that such hot and nasty particles as being closely associated with the nearly naked surface of the moon will not in any measurable way degrade nor much less penetrate a given moonsuit that's being wide-field (360 x 180) exposed to whatever's physical that's coming along at good velocity, plus wide-spectrum radiated upon from every which way but lose, and that's having to include from the bottom up. Thus it's not just speaking about thermal conduction and radiated thermal energy as it's involving what DNA/RNA hot and nasty about being anywhere near the solar illuminated portions of or moon. DNA/RNA what about my ING investment? I'm no expert wizard of Oz but, butt what? seems like the environment of our moon (especially by day) offers a perfectly good reason for using robust robots, and/or the sorts of LUNAR-A impact probes that are DNA/RNA deficient to start off with. ~ Life on Venus includes your basic Township, Bridge & Tarmac: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm Russian/Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm A few other sub-topics of interest by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm |
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What happened?
Whenever I try to post anything without my having included a few words, I can't, or at least the GOOGLE Usenet V-Chip tells me that I have to provide something/anything besides just crossposting to some other groups. ~ Life upon Venus, a township w/Bridge & ET/UFO Park-n-Ride Tarmac: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm The Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm Venus ETs, plus the updated sub-topics; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm War is war, thus "in war there are no rules" - In fact, war has been the very reason of having to deal with the likes of others that haven't been playing by whatever rules, such as GW Bush. |
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Impacting the moon for sport of science and for creating atmosphere;
If something is dropped/deployed away from the stationary (mutual gravity-well) spot that's roughly 35r or 34r off the deck being 59,092 km of taking on a nearly straight fall and thus hardly any orbital velocity; If starting off at 1 m/s, what's length of time and the final velocity as this item impacts the lunar surface? For even numbers, you may as well use 60,000 km as your distance to ground zero. ~ Life upon Venus, a township w/Bridge & ET/UFO Park-n-Ride Tarmac: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm The Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm Venus ETs, plus the updated sub-topics; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm |
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