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NASA Selects Team to Build Lunar Lander baalke 09-30-2005
Posted by baalke on September 30, 2005, 1:49 pm
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Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 30, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1979/5241)

RELEASE: 05-289

NASA SELECTS TEAM TO BUILD LUNAR LANDER

NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for the Exploration
Systems Mission Directorate Doug Cooke today announced the selection
of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., to lead a team
in the development of a lunar lander spacecraft.

The lander is tentatively planned for launch as early as 2010.
It will demonstrate the ability for precision landings at targeted
locations on the moon; evaluate landing zone environment; and
determine if lunar resources can support a sustained human presence.

"This mission will have as a primary objective to determine
whether there is water-ice in the permanently dark areas within
craters in the moon's polar regions. The existence of water-ice
has important implications in living off the land when we return
with human explorers," Cooke said. "The lunar lander will test
critical automated descent and precision landing capabilities
needed for human landings, including surface hazard avoidance
during landing. The discoveries from this mission and the data
it collects will play a vital role in humans returning to the
moon and living there for extended periods," he added.

The Robotic Lunar Exploration Program (RLEP) program is intended
to provide a series of robotic missions to support human exploration.
The lunar lander spacecraft is the second RLEP mission. The
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission developed
under the RLEP. The LRO is being built at Goddard and is scheduled
for launch in 2008. The orbiter will carry six instruments that
will map and photograph the lunar surface, search for surface
ice deposits, and investigate space radiation.

For information about NASA and the new era of space exploration
on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home

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Posted by Brad Guth on October 1, 2005, 2:37 pm
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In the meantime, why not just allow the deployment of the already
existing LUNAR-A mission that's been on hold for more than a decade?
~

Life on Venus includes your basic Township, Bridge & Tarmac:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
Russian/Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator)
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
A few other sub-topics of interest by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm



Posted by Art Deco on October 1, 2005, 3:49 pm
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>In the meantime, why not just allow the deployment of the already
>existing LUNAR-A mission that's been on hold for more than a decade?

Fortunately NASA doesn't have to listen to frothing pseudoscience
usenet kooks such as yourself, guth.

[guth links flushed]

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Posted by Brad Guth on October 2, 2005, 11:32 am
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Our moon by day is in fact "hotter than holy hell".
I'd been referring to various substances as per those having been
situated or sequestered within a sufficient vacuum. However, if that
vacuum so happens to include a crystal clear surround as that of an
insulative layer of radon gas isn't going to exactly make such items
any cooler, that plus of what has been said about the extremely hot and
nasty particles that coexist throughout the Van Allen zone/expanse are
of what's further suggesting that it can get and sustain such small
particles(various atoms and most certainly a good dusting worth of
iron) as per being extremely hot while you're situated within such a
near vacuum as a fully solar/cosmic exposure mode of being essentially
naked, and especially humanly hot and nasty while having to trek
yourself across a less than 5 g/cm2 worth of an extremely dark
moon-dust surface-tension, that's of all things being its hot and nasty
self is also a bit photon reactive to boot (especially as derived off
the items of higher density, like starting off with basalt at 3.1
g/cm3) which supposedly accomplishes a terrific job of generating them
hard-X-rays.

Perhaps the lunar atmospheric element of the sodium element in of
itself is even a wee bit hotter than we'd previously understood, and
certainly of a greater population/m3 than we'd previously thought, and
perhaps especially of those sodium atoms as having ranged more than
900,000 km away from the lunar deck by such solar winds had to have
been individually "hotter than holy hell".

Since we still have absolutely nothing that's interactively sharing
scientific squat from the surface of our moon, perhaps certain folks
can best inform us village idiots as to what the temperature actually
is of the solar winds (100 ~ 2400 km/s), thus putting into perspective
as to what a supposedly sparsely populated atmosphere of our moon might
have to offer?

Seems we're being told to assume that such hot and nasty particles as
being closely associated with the nearly naked surface of the moon will
not in any measurable way degrade nor much less penetrate a given
moonsuit that's being wide-field (360 x 180) exposed to whatever's
physical that's coming along at good velocity, plus wide-spectrum
radiated upon from every which way but lose, and that's having to
include from the bottom up. Thus it's not just speaking about thermal
conduction and radiated thermal energy as it's involving what DNA/RNA
hot and nasty about being anywhere near the solar illuminated portions
of or moon.

I'm no expert wizard of Oz but, seems like the environment of our moon
(especially by day) offers a perfectly good reason for using robust
robots, and/or the sorts of LUNAR-A impact probes that are DNA/RNA
deficient to start off with.
~

Life on Venus includes your basic Township, Bridge & Tarmac:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
Russian/Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator)
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
A few other sub-topics of interest by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm



Posted by enmicabesa on October 7, 2005, 8:04 am
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Brad Guth wrote:
> Our moon by day is in fact "hotter than holy hell".
> I'd been referring to various substances as per those having been
> situated or sequestered within a sufficient vacuum. However, if that
> vacuum so happens to include a crystal clear surround as that of an
> insulative layer of radon gas isn't going to exactly make such items
> any cooler, that plus of what has been said about the extremely hot and
> nasty particles that coexist throughout the Van Allen zone/expanse are
> of what's further suggesting that it can get and sustain such small
> particles(various atoms and most certainly a good dusting worth of
> iron) as per being extremely hot while you're situated within such a
> near vacuum as a fully solar/cosmic exposure mode of being essentially
> naked, and especially humanly hot and nasty while having to trek
> yourself across a less than 5 g/cm2 worth of an extremely dark
> moon-dust surface-tension, that's of all things being its hot and nasty
> self is also a bit photon reactive to boot (especially as derived off
> the items of higher density, like starting off with basalt at 3.1
> g/cm3) which supposedly accomplishes a terrific job of generating them
> hard-X-rays.
>
> Perhaps the lunar atmospheric element of the sodium element in of
> itself is even a wee bit hotter than we'd previously understood, and
> certainly of a greater population/m3 than we'd previously thought, and
> perhaps especially of those sodium atoms as having ranged more than
> 900,000 km away from the lunar deck by such solar winds had to have
> been individually "hotter than holy hell".
> WOW! Is that close to being wicked hot?
> Since we still have absolutely nothing that's interactively sharing
> scientific squat from the surface of our moon, perhaps certain folks
> can best inform us village idiots as to what the temperature actually
> is of the solar winds (100 ~ 2400 km/s), thus putting into perspective
> as to what a supposedly sparsely populated atmosphere of our moon might
> have to offer?
> 100^2400km/s? try moron not idiot
> Seems we're being told to assume that such hot and nasty particles as
> being closely associated with the nearly naked surface of the moon will
> not in any measurable way degrade nor much less penetrate a given
> moonsuit that's being wide-field (360 x 180) exposed to whatever's
> physical that's coming along at good velocity, plus wide-spectrum
> radiated upon from every which way but lose, and that's having to
> include from the bottom up. Thus it's not just speaking about thermal
> conduction and radiated thermal energy as it's involving what DNA/RNA
> hot and nasty about being anywhere near the solar illuminated portions
> of or moon.
> DNA/RNA what about my ING investment?
> I'm no expert wizard of Oz but, butt what? seems like the environment of our
moon
> (especially by day) offers a perfectly good reason for using robust
> robots, and/or the sorts of LUNAR-A impact probes that are DNA/RNA
> deficient to start off with.
> ~
>
> Life on Venus includes your basic Township, Bridge & Tarmac:
> http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
> Russian/Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator)
> http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
> A few other sub-topics of interest by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
> http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm



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