Return to the moon

[glazbagun]

Simpo Two said:

Looks like a still from Wallace & Gromit...

[Pupp]

Japanese lander seems alive still, at least…

Japan Moon lander survives lunar night https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-684...

[glazbagun]

I suppose an advantage of robots is if you do screw up at least you can wait a fortnight for some sun. Don't fancy being an astronaut trying to right my wonky lunar module.

[Eric Mc]

Some of the Apollo Lunar Modules landed on quite scary slopes.

[kestral]

Scrump said:

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

Translated means. We need to do it before the Russians do.

[SpudLink]

kestral said:

Scrump said:

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

Translated means. We need to do it before the Russians do.

Good politicians inspire people to greater things by appealing to their better nature. Bad ones play on people's fears.

[hidetheelephants]

SpudLink said:

kestral said:

Scrump said:

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

Translated means. We need to do it before the Russians do.

Good politicians inspire people to greater things by appealing to their better nature. Bad ones play on people's fears.

$20bn in 1960s dollars helped too.