It would appear that those brainy acts at NASA are planning to play around with that moon of ours again. Send a robot? Collect some dust? No. they plan to build a ‘permanently-occupied base’ on the moon!
You may be thinking ‘why would they want to? It’s not like anyone ever goes.’, well, this is all for those hardworking astronauts who are planning to return to the moon in 2020, as President Bush announced after the 2003 Columbia space shuttle accident.
There are so many jokes I could make about builder’s competence that I will spare you.
The technical details haven’t all been laid out yet (and let’s face it, could you and I actually understand if they had?) but the base is expected to run by solar power and built near to one of the two poles.
NASA plans to ask other countries with help to build the base. Wow, could you imagine that rather painful ‘divorce settlement’ if ever the US fell out with one of these countries in the future?
US: Fine, but we’re keeping the moon base.
China: Oh hell no.
US: [bombs china]
It’s going to be a long time before we get to see the base, but it’s a step forward in the US space program, which will hopefully lead us to more information about the big unknown.
Now, any bets on what they're going to build next? I say a McDonalds. What? Oh come on, this is the US we're talking about!
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