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Why Visiting The Moon Is More Important Than Mars
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Former NASA Astronaut, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, has said a mission to the moon would be far cheaper and safer than going to Mars, and that it would act as a good rehearsal before attempting to visit the red planet.
Yahoo News reports:
A mission to the moon would be infinitely cheaper, shorter, and safer than a trip to Mars, which is partly why Hoffman says it makes more sense to revisit our lunar neighbor before we attempt to conquer the Red Planet.
The moon is nearly 600 times closer than Mars, and we already have a history of successfully landing on it. During the Apollo missions, NASA sent 24 astronauts to the moon, 12 of whom walked on the surface.
Does this success make the moon any less interesting to explore? Of course not!
“We basically just scratched the surface during Apollo, you know,” Hoffman told Business Insider. “Some people say, ‘Oh, been there. Done that.’ They just don’t understand.”
And he’s not the only one who thinks this.
Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield agrees that the moon is a more sensible goal. NASA’s spacecraft Orion was built to shepherd astronauts to Mars by the 2030s, and “that is a great vehicle,” Hadfield told The Guardian. “But where we are going to go next is the moon.”
He continued: “That’s where we are going to go because it just makes sense. It is only three days away and we can invent so many things.”
Hoffman and Hadfield have a point — and it’s one quickly lost in the minds of Mars-dreamers like Mars One and SpaceX’s Elon Musk.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/03/why-visiting-the-moon-is-more-important-than-mars/
We fell for this 47 years ago. We’re not dumb enough to fall for it again.
Talk and fake pictures and analysis of meteorites just won’t do it.
you goon
privatess say something factual. or logical.
Hadfield says the moon is a three day drive, 240,000 miles divided by 72 hours equals 3333.33 miles an hour. Maybe I am wrong, but that seems slow compared to the ISS that is travelling at 17,000 miles an hour. Maybe they should take the ISS to the moon, it would be a lot faster, and when they get to the moon they can then go on to Mars, Jupiter, and to Orion where they can spend the day with God.
Well, the 17,000 is just to be in orbit. You need 25,000 to leave orbit.
And a lot more to go anywhere in a reasonable amount of time.