When the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite launch together on November 23, 2008 for a twin mission to the Moon, I will be on board.
I signed up yesterday.
Thanks to the “Send Your Name to the Moon” project, I join hundreds of thousands of fellow earthlings as our names will be inputted onto a microchip to be implanted on the LRO.
This is my certificate of participation.
NASA hopes to send humans to the Moon by 2020. The space agency recently released its lunar flight plan.
In related news, I’m excited about the August 2008 launch of Chandrayaan-1 containing the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, marking the first lunar mission by India’s space agency enabling world scientists to see high-resolution spectrometry of the entire lunar surface.
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Its not August 2008, i think the launch date of chandrayaan-1 is tentatively fixed at 19th september
I was going by a NASA page, but thanks for the clarification.
I’d love to visit the Moon, it’s near the top of my list of places to go. But, I have the nigglingest feeling that there are way too many problems that need to be addressed here on Earth before we should be spending billions setting up moonbases and stuff.
I agree terrestrial concerns trump other planetary ones, but if you consider the worst case scenarios of global warming if humankind fails to significantly alter its consumption, we’re looking at a near-waterworld in 500 years.
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