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NASA | LRO: Coming Soon to a Moon Near You

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission will conduct investigations preparing for and supporting future human exploration of the Moon.

For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/LRO

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  • "Really, NASAs problem is they fail to wow the public anymore"

    I'm not really sure how to respond to that, it's just so superficial. To expect that the mission of NASA should be to "wow" as opposed to doing that whole boring science thing? That's just stupid... And you again claim the reason they want to go to the moon is to "study grey dust" when I pointed out below that the purpose is quite the opposite... The public is not saying STOP. You are.. because you have some arbitrary bias..

  • "Lets get men to Mars, forget the moon."

    This is a good question, why go back to the moon?

    Well if we are going to go to the Mars, the Moon is going to play an important role for that...

    1. It's much easier to launch from the Moon to Mars than from Earth (less gravity to overcome), and as such we would have to establish a permanent base.

    2. The Moon will be a good proving ground for the technology we intend to deploy on Mars and a good training ground for those we intend to send.

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  • that pretty cool animation

  • i pick phobos! shotgun

  • i sure don't wanna live in the moon.. if something fucked up. everyone is doom LOL.

  • ok.....if they send a leuitenent ripley and her cat jonesy out there then im scared. as long as she doesnt come back to earth then im fine.

  • America is in massive trillions upon trillions of dollars debt. They don`t have the money to go to the moon. The only way is to borrow even more money to achieve that. Americans have become too naive and unrealistic. They need to get real other wise their children will have to pay debt all there lives and their country will become a 3d world nation.

  • Lol. Nobody knows that NASA has kept a secret about aliens/alien bases on the moon. Its actually top secret and no one believes it only some..

  • In the 1960s, NASA needed an onboard computer for Apollo. No existing computer came close. So they sponsored one that used integrated circuits to get the size and weight down. They bought fully half of Fairchild Semiconductor's production. In 1968, several Fairchild people formed a new company you may have heard of: Intel.

    Yes, NASA needs to spend its money wisely. But space is a big technology driver. The spinoffs are unpredictable, but can be very significant.

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