Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[AnDrOiD]

Was it not there when they were actually up there?

"Dr Jessica Sunshine...". A shame her name is not Dr Jessica Moonlight.

[Kanta]

Was it not there when they were actually up there?

Yep, but it had to be confirmed by human beings.

[Velodynamic]

Hmm...interesting.
Soon perhaps JMJ will pull off a 'water for life II' concert on the moon then?

[AnDrOiD]

Was it not there when they were actually up there?

Yep, but it had to be confirmed by human beings.

That does not make sense.

[Velodynamic]

Was it not there when they were actually up there?

Yep, but it had to be confirmed by human beings.

That does not make sense.

Maybe they weren't searching for water hard enough, in hope of finding a Budweiser under some rock?

[AnDrOiD]

Are there Mootians up there then?

[Velodynamic]

Ecxept for baldies and moon walkers?

[Kanta]

Was it not there when they were actually up there?

Yep, but it had to be confirmed by human beings.

That does not make sense.

It does to me.

[Velodynamic]

Atlantis's last landing at Kennedy Space Center marks the final nail in the coffin for the space shuttle program.



To that day 42 years ago since N. Armstrong and B. Aldrin made their first steps onto the moon's surface. What will happen with Nasa now? Nobody knows for sure.
Only time will tell.

[mathetes1963]

Atlantis's last landing at Kennedy Space Center marks the final nail in the coffin for the space shuttle program.



To that day 42 years ago since N. Armstrong and B. Aldrin made their first steps onto the moon's surface. What will happen with Nasa now? Nobody knows for sure.
Only time will tell.

Sigh...
One can only hope that the next US administration is more forward-looking than the current one. On a number of levels, not just the space program.

[qube]

As cool as the Shuttle was it's difficult to see what it achieved.

It seemed to exist to keep people at NASA in a job, it's like the space station, a marvel of technology and engineering, but what does it actually do?

The point of the shuttle was that it could ship satellites into orbit cheaply, but it couldn't, was far too expensive which is why most are launched using un-manned rockets, the second purpose was that it could be used to build a craft in orbit that could take people to Mars, but instead we have the ISS which doesn't go anywhere or really do anything and will be ditched into the Pacific in about 5 - 10 years time.

So the ISS will sit up there for a few more years and be eventually scrapped, we'd have spent $500 billion and be no further on than we were before Apollo.

I'm hoping the privately funded projects have a better track record as it's going to be a long time before we see anything interesting from NASA again.

[Dr_Jones]

If you play NASA's history backwards,they start out with no manned space flight capability,develop shuttles,and eventually land on the moon.

[qube]

[Analog-Umph]

As cool as the Shuttle was it's difficult to see what it achieved.

It seemed to exist to keep people at NASA in a job, it's like the space station, a marvel of technology and engineering, but what does it actually do?

Thousands and thousands of experiments. Some of which are publically stated others which are very much not.

Making of new medicines, metals, liquids... Seeing what exposure to no gravity does to genes.
Seeing how cosmic radiation effects nuclei. Seeing how to make new technolgy for long term space habitation. On and on...

[Velodynamic]

What about the long term vision to go beyond the moon and sending an expedition to Mars by year 2020++something? Is it going to be even possible for the Nasa organisation by then? I think the ISS will keep running a couple of years feeded from russian rockets and it wouldn't surprice me if the chineese are going back to the moon. They may not be as technically advanced but thinking about the Apollo 11 technology they're by far advanced enough to do such a journey.
It's just a question of having the money and the guts to do it and putting peoples lives in great danger. That's what I think.
The best thing with Nasa are their space telescopes and fantastic (retouched) images of the space.
Their probes and robotics are very effective eventhough they will never be able to fully replace the romantic feelings of humans physically out there "in space".
There is something fundamentally inspirational about that.