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America will send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle. Making its first flights early in the next decade, Orion is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.
A component of the Vision for Space Exploration, Orion’s development is taking place in parallel with missions to complete the International Space Station using the space shuttle before the shuttle is retired in 2010.
Orion will be capable of carrying crew and cargo to the space station. It will be able to rendezvous with a lunar landing module and an Earth departure stage in low-Earth orbit to carry crews to the moon and, one day, to Mars-bound vehicles assembled in low-Earth orbit. Orion will be the Earth entry vehicle for lunar and Mars returns. Orion’s design will borrow its shape from the capsules of the past, but takes advantage of 21st century technology in computers, electronics, life support, propulsion and heat protection systems.
Lockheed Martin Corp was awarded the contract to build Orion on Aug. 31, 2006.
Originally posted by KrazyAnubis
And above all, I think truth is more important then war, No?
Originally posted by KrazyAnubis
But what if they are delaying this so that we simply don't care about it anymore.
Originally posted by KrazyAnubis
However I wish I could go, it would be simply breathtaking being up there so high, looking into a huge space of nothing but distant stars and planets among other amazing things.
Originally posted by Nohup
What will happen, and probably a lot sooner than you'll see a lot of people walking around on the Moon, is that our virtual reality games will get so much better -- with direct neurosensory input, etc. -- that regular people like you and me could essentially feel like we're on the Moon, or someplace even more awesome and exciting than that
anyhow, as I said that their last mission was some 30 years ago, since then our HD cameras, space equipment, gear, etc have improved DRASTICLY. Which bring us to another point, why dont we go again?
One theory, call me crazy, but mars as wel as moon has (or people claim that) they have many pyramids, strangely... our planet does too.. (strange, no?) all we know about our pyramids is that they are "burials/tombs" for pharaohs.. right... moving on, is it possible that the people (as u call them aliens.. could it be that WE are the aliens) have landed here millions of years ago.. due to various reasons.. one is that their planet (10th planet which now is only way 2 many freaking rocks floating in a circle)
all have MOON GODS,
Oh yes, back to picture topic.. Did you know that the pics taken by NASA are taken from cameras owned by a PRIVATE (non goverment) company that looks over the pics and releases ONLY THE ONES that they feel is "safe" to not expose the truth, yah,
they blure pics that look like something to make us wonder and go in circles and to simply forget that theres ET's out there. Why is it that all the pics are of rocks?
Did u kno that moon only faces earth from one side 24/7, last time i checked, planets SPIN (along with moons) and rotate around sun, No?
Originally posted by ziggystar60
AS15-89-12070. Hello, little devil:
AS17-142-21716, from Apollo 17 mission to Taurus-Littrow. Look at what the astronaut Gene Cernan is holding in his hand, and look at the reflection of it in his visor:
For you who think it was the astronauts that made the carvings,
this is what it looks like in EVERY Apollo picture of rocks that have been taken samples of. Notice also the colour change where the sample has been taken. (this is cropped version of image AS16-107-17524):
AS17-145-22166, from Apollo 17. This strange rock appears to have some kind of handles on it. (By the way, the former Apollo astronaut and artist Alan Bean have strangely enough made a serie of 14 - fourteen! - paintings which has this particular rock in it.
Originally posted by BluePillOrRedPill
In the picture of the reflection of the visor, forget what he is holding but look at the two structures in the top left of the visor reflection. The immediate top left looks wwaaaayyy to steep to be the side of an impact crater.
New Member and first post by the way.