Private moon rovers may visit the Apollo 17 landing site
Read more at http://www.popsci.com/private-moon-rovers-may-visit-apollo-17-landing-site.
It seems to me that people do not knowingly repeat trips to the moon after the first glad. After all, there is even commercial interests, but all that it takes. And nobody says anything public. What is the problem.The Apollo 17 landing site has been abandoned since the last lunar astronauts went home in 1972. Now the site could get its first visitor in 44 years, as private companies race to the moon in the Google Lunar Xprize competition. A German team known as the PartTimeScientists plans to send its rovers to the Apollo 17 landing site and examine the moon buggy left behind by astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
PartTimeScientists is the fourth team to book a flight to the moon. A rocket rideshare company called Spaceflight Inc. is handling the launch contract. Exactly which rocket it will ride on (and when) is still up in the air.
PartTimeScientists is the fourth team to book a flight to the moon. A rocket rideshare company called Spaceflight Inc. is handling the launch contract. Exactly which rocket it will ride on (and when) is still up in the air.
Read more at http://www.popsci.com/private-moon-rovers-may-visit-apollo-17-landing-site.
The problem might be that we never went there. It seems there is a lot of evidence that the moon shots were faked.
If we really DID go to the moon, the expense was so great that it isn't profitable to do it frequently. Otherwise we would be doing it regularly right now.
Someday the expense might come down, and it might be profitable. But it won't happen until we eliminate poverty in the world. Why not? There are too many people who fight the stupidity of a moon shot while there is poverty around the world.