Water Discovered on the Moon

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Well it has been almost 3 years again since I last posted on Blogger. Seems like every 3 years I post something here. At least I am posting on a regular basis even though it is only once every 3 years.

Anyways, about water on the moon. This is a huge find and a large boost for NASA. Now that the US President has cut some of the space funding for now, NASA can push for more funding in the future to aid in the development of manned missions to the moon.

Going to the moon and landing compared to Mars is a better proposition that needs to happen in my lifetime. These are my simple reasons for pushing for a manned moon mission.
  1. It is closer to us thus much cheaper to execute.
  2. The water discovered on the moon can be used to create fuel, oxygen and drinking water for future missions launched from the moon without the huge expense of transporting water from earth.
  3. A manned station on the moon can certainly be a great research test location for astronauts that will someday travel to Mars.
  4. Though we still do not posses concrete evidence that intelligent life exists on another planet, we owe it to our future generations to establish a colony off of earth sooner than later before we deplete the necessary resources we need to survive on earth. The moon is a great starting location.
  5. The moon may be considered a huge lump of rock but without the moon, we probably would not be around on earth to this day. The effect of the moon on our daily lives go far beyond the simple crescent to a full moon cycle we see each month. The moon affects the tides, controls the mood in many of us and some also say that the womans menstrual cycle is affected by the moons lunar cycle. Therefore studying how our lives are affected by the moon from the position of the moon may have some profound developments to our lives.

I feel we have spent too much time and resources on the International space station and a new direction and initiative for space should be considered in the near future. The space shuttle is also a dinosaur that should have been retired years ago.

There has been a number of civilians that have travelled to the space station by paying tens of millions of dollars to get there. I do not feel that years of expensive training and millions of dollars are required to send one person to outer space. People can go to the moon and back if a number of countries that already have experience in space come together and develop a commercial launch vehicle and space station on the moon. The number of companies willing to use the moon base for research is probably in the thousands. Many individuals probably would be willing to pay at least 1 million dollars for the opportunity to travel to the moon and back.

I hope to hear in the next 2 - 4 years some exciting news about sending astronauts to the moon again. I may not see space tourism in my lifetime but just the thought that this will happen in the future is still exciting.

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