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Captain Packrat ([personal profile] captpackrat) wrote2008-02-14 01:53 am
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One of these days, Alice...

NASA's current plans call for a return to the moon with Orion 15, tentatively scheduled for June, 2019.

Whatever happened to being able to put a man on the moon in under a decade?
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[identity profile] dakhun.livejournal.com 2008-02-15 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, but I think they do have the organizational capacity to go to the Moon - because they've done it before. :-P Funding is the issue.

I don't know if I'd want to be a planetary scientist NOW unless I was set to retire soon; maybe the past 5-10 years would have been a good time and maybe that could continue for another year or two, but looking forward, it is not good. Orion is going to sink a lot of projects that would have otherwise gone ahead.
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