MARS...Let's Go!

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Lone Gunman Barricaded In NASA Building
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/mostpopular/article.aspx?storyid=83336&provider=top

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[AssKissinger]

Asia could win next 'Space Race', US scientists fear by Tangi Quemener
Sun Sep 30, 4:04 AM ET



Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik left the United States scrambling to play catch-up in the first Space Race, US scientists fear history may be repeating itself as Asia emerges as the rising force in space exploration.

While the achievements of space programs run by China, Japan and India are modest in comparison to the milestones set by the United States and former Soviet Union, experts at a recent conference in Pasadena believe it is only a matter of time before Asia leads the field.

China, which sent a man into space for the first time in 2003, plans to launch its own moon probe before the end of the year, followed by India in the first half of 2008. Japan kick-started the Asian lunar race on September 14 when it successfully launched its first lunar orbiter.

While China and India have raised the possibility of a manned lunar mission within the next decade, the United States has vowed to return to the Moon in 2020, 48 years after the last US visit. NASA meanwhile has set the ambitious target of wanting to put a man on Mars in 2037.

"When we celebrate 100 years of Sputnik, we might celebrate the 20th anniversary of man landing on Mars," Frank Griffin, NASA's chief administrator said recently.

But many astrophysicists, space engineers and other high-ranking US scientists do not share Griffin's optimism, pointing to waning interest in space exploration amongst young Americans and a lack of government investment in developing elite scientists.

"In America, contrary to our self-image, we are no longer leaders but simply players," said Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in a recent editorial. "We’ve moved backward just by standing still."

The numbers of new scientists in Asian countries are eclipsing those in the United States. In 2004, around 500,000 engineers graduated in China, 200,000 in India and only 70,000 in the US, according to a report from the National Academy of Sciences released this year.

The authors of the report -- "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" -- warned the United States risked losing its position as the leading technological superpower if present trends continued.

"Although many people assume that United States will always be a world leader in science and technology, this may not continue to be the case," the report warned. "We fear the abruptness with which a lead in science and technology can be lost -- and the difficulty of recovering a lead once lost, if indeed it can be regained at all.

"This nation must prepare with great urgency to preserve its strategic and economic security."

According to Ares Rosakis, a professor of Aeronautics at the prestigious California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the scientific community has struggled to capture the imagination of younger generations.

"We have failed to communicate and infuse the excitement of space into our younger generation," Rosakis said.

Charles Elachi, the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, echoed Rosakis' comments.

"Clearly, there are so many distractions in our society but every time we have kids visiting JPL and we talk about space exploration, showing them Mars rovers, having astronauts, they get completely taken by it," Elachi said.

"The challenge we have now in our society is the wide distraction that kids get from networks, games, iPods, YouTube and so on. We need to figure a way to get their attention."

Frank Fernandez, director emeritus of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), blamed a lack of investment in human resources.

"We need to invest in people," Fernandez warned. "We don't have people in the pipeline."

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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin

http://www.space.com/news/ap-071003-china-spacerace.html
"I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,'

"I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it.''

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Kibo lab has just been launched on STS-123

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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin

http://www.space.com/news/ap-071003-china-spacerace.html
"I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,'

"I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it.''

When was China there before?

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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin

"I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,'

"I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it.''

wow, those two quotes make no sense at all. i guess it doesnt take a rocket scient... oh. shit.

[Buraku]

Kibo ready for addition of module

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080606/NEWS02/806060355


Toilet trouble won't force space station evacuation: NASA

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/257501.asp

[SovietSupreme]

Everyone knows Soviet Union won space race. We were first in space and are winner because we were first. All America did was land man on moon much after we launched first man in space. America will always be second to Soviet Union in space. Nobody can defeat Soviet Union and it's most loved leader, Soviet Supreme. Communist way is the best way!

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[Greji]

Mitchell spent 9 hours and 17 minutes walking on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

Could he still be walking on the moon?

[IkemenTommy]

Could he still be walking on the moon?

Not like MJ

[Mulboyne]

Mitchell poses a problem for some conspiracy theorists: to accept his views on aliens, they have to accept that the moon landings were real.

[Greji]

Mitchell poses a problem for some conspiracy theorists: to accept his views on aliens, they have to accept that the moon landings were real.

You mean they weren't in New Mexico?

[Buraku]

NASA administrator decries White House 'jihad' to end shuttle program

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/09/06/3636492.htm

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[Buraku]

Once again Japan faces death from above

[quote="UNIVERSETODAY"]The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) weighs 1400 lb (635 kg), is the size of two refrigerators and it's going to drop through the atmosphere some time tomorrow (Sunday, Nov. 2nd). Funny thing is, we don't know where, and we don't precisely know when. Will any of the defunct equipment survive re-entry? We don't know that either, but it seems highly probable.

The EAS was dropped from the International Space Station in 2007, making it the largest piece of space junk ever dropped from the orbital outpost. At the time, it was believed the ammonia coolant-filled debris would only stay in orbit for 300 days]

[kurohinge1]

. . . humans . . . are the weak link . . .

The Earth is protected from harmful solar radiation by a magnetic field. Not so, out in space. Many astronauts in orbit have reported seeing bright flashes of light from time to time. This was revealed to be the effect of tiny particles passing right through their eyes/retina (and the rest of their body). Down here we're shielded from those particles by the planet's magnetic field. The northern lightsare a visable by-product of this.

On a long trip to Mars, your body would be constantly penetrated by these tiny particles, not that you'd feel anything. However, the effects would likely shorten your life and make you more prone to cancers, etc.

Human muscles, etc, also have a bad habit of turning to jelly if they are without gravity for long periods, although crustaceans are able to regrow limbs and regenerate muscle fibres at will.

Not to mention that whiny humans expect to be fed, toiletted and entertained on their long journey.

So, all we need to do is genetically engineer a generation of crustacean-human crossbreeds, able to hibernate for long periods, and which emit a protective magnetic field around themselves, and you can pack your bags! . . .

Well, it seems they're working on the first part:

[SIZE="4"]Mission to Mars: Key health hurdle can be overcome, say scientists[/SIZE]

Scientists believe they have found a way of protecting astronauts from a dangerous source of space radiation, thus lifting a major doubt clouding the dream to send humans to Mars.

Their breakthrough takes forward ideas born in the golden age of science fiction, including a proton shield used in the TV show "Star Trek," says one of the researchers.

Space weather is one of the greatest challenges facing Mission Red Planet sketched by the United States and Europe for some three decades from now.

Even the shortest round trip -- the distance between the two planets varies between 55 million (34 million miles) and more than 400 million kms (250 million miles) -- would take at least 18 months.

During this time, the crew would be exposed to sub-atomic particles that whizz through space, capable of slicing through DNA like a hot knife through butter and boosting the risk of cancer and other disorders.

. . . British and Portuguese scientists have taken a fresh look at this old concept [of a ship-based protective magnetic field] and say the magnetic field does not, in fact, have to be huge -- just a "bubble" a few hundred metres (yards) across would suffice.

"The idea is really like in 'Star Trek', when Scottie turns on a shield to protect the starship Enterprise from proton beams -- it's almost identical really," Bob Bingham of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford told AFP.

. . . As a result, the researchers have been able to devise a smarter, miniaturised model of magnetic protection rather than the blunderbuss-style field generator that was envisaged in the past.

. . . The force of the magnetic field would replicate that of Earth's but, to minimise any risk to crew close to its source, could be carried in unmanned spacecraft flying either side of the crewship.

. . . It would scatter almost all particles dispatched in "solar storms" -- protons belched out by the Sun, he said.

It would not work against a somewhat less dangerous problem, of high-energy cosmic rays that fly across interstellar distances, but the ship could be swathed with material, like a kevlar bulletproof waistcoat, against that threat.

. . . In 2001, a NASA study found that at least 39 former astronauts suffered cataracts after flying in space, 36 of whom had taken part in missions beyond Earth's orbit.

Separately, the agency has tentatively estimated that a trip to Mars and back would give a 40-year-old non-smoking man a 40 percent risk of developing fatal cancer after he returned to Earth, or twice the terrestrial risk. . . more

[Phantom]

[SIZE="6"]Man Plus[/SIZE]
Its not a gay hookup club, its a novel by Frederick Pohl.

Pohl definitely had the right idea over 30 years ago; humans are the weak-link so engineer them to better survive the rigours of Mars.

[SIZE="5"]Plot introduction[/SIZE]

In the not too distant future, a cold war threatens to turn hot. Colonization of Mars seems to be mankind's only hope of surviving certain Armageddon. To facilitate this, the American government begins a cyborg program to create a being capable of surviving the harsh Martian environment...Man Plus. After the death of the first candidate, Roger Torraway becomes the heart of the program.

In order to survive in the thin Martian atmosphere, Roger Torraway's body must be replaced with an artificial one. At every step he becomes more and more disconnected from humanity, unable to feel things in his new body. It is only after arriving on Mars that his new body begins to make sense to him. It is perfectly adapted to this new world, and thus he becomes perfectly separated from his old world, and from humanity.

The success of the Martian mission spurs similar cyborg programs in other space-faring nations. It is revealed that the computer networks of earth have become sentient, and that ensuring humanity's survival will guarantee theirs as well. In the end, the network is puzzled...it appears that something else was behind the push to space, a mystery even to the machines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Plus

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Muslims in space !!!!!


Iran sends first home-built satellite into orbit
54 minutes ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPSC15Yx6Q4Prc5MIqs27QdfjEYg

Iran said on Tuesday it has launched its first home-built satellite into orbit, raising fresh concerns among world powers already at odds with Tehran over its nuclear drive.

"Dear Iranians, your children have put the first indigenous satellite into orbit," a jubilant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on state television after a launch coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

"With this launch the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space," he said.

The Omid (Hope) satellite was sent into space on Monday evening carried by the home-built Safir-2 space rocket, local news agencies reported.

In the first foreign reaction, France expressed concern because the technology used was "very similar" to that employed in ballistic missiles.

"We can't but link this to the very serious concerns about the development of military nuclear capacity," foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said in Paris.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the satellite programme could "possibly lead to the development of ballistic missiles."

"That's of great concern to us," he said.

In London, British Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell voiced "serious concerns" over the launch.

"This test underlines and illustrates our serious concerns about Iran's intentions," Rammell said in a statement issued by the Foreign Office, adding that Britain was still carrying out technical analyses.

The launch comes at at time when Iran is defiantly refusing UN Security Council demands to freeze sensitive nuclear work.

The West suspects Iran of secretly trying to build an atomic bomb and fears the technology used to launch a space rocket could be diverted into development of long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Iran vehemently denies the charges, saying its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes and that it has the right to the technology already in the hands of many other nations including its archfoe the United States.

Ahmadinejad said the satellite carried a message of "peace and brotherhood" to the world and dismissed suggestions that Iran's space programme had military goals.

"We have a divine view of technology unlike the dominating powers of the world who have Satanic views," he said.

In Addis Ababa on the sidelines of an African Union summit, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the satellite would enable Tehran to receive "environmental data," adding that "the technological capacity of Iran is meant to meet the needs of the country."

Ahmadinejad has made scientific development one of the main themes of his presidency, asserting that Iran has reached a peak of progress despite international sanctions and no longer needs help from foreign states.

The state news agency IRNA said the satellite would take orbital measurements and would circle the Earth 15 times every 24 hours.

Iranian aerospace expert Asghar Ebrahimi said Omid has an elliptical orbit of minimum of 250 kilometres (156 miles) and maximum 400 kilometres.

The launch comes on the eve of a meeting in Germany on Wednesday of senior diplomats from six world powers who are are due to discuss the Iranian nuclear standoff, with Tehran still defying calls for a freeze on uranium enrichment.

New US President Barack Obama said last month shortly after taking office that he was willing to extend the hand of diplomacy to Iran, after 30 years of severed diplomatic relations.

Iran sent its first Safir rocket into space in August. It is about 22 metres (72 feet) long, with a diameter of 1.25 metres (a little over four feet) and weighs more than 26 tonnes .

Iran's most powerful military missile, the Shahab-3, has a diameter of 1.30 metres and measures 17 metres in length. It has a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) -- putting archfoe Israel and US forces in the region within reach.

Last year Iran triggered concern in the West when it said it had sent a probe into space on the back of a rocket to prepare for a satellite launch, and announced the opening of its space station in a remote western desert.

Iran has pursued a space programme for several years, and in October 2005 a Russian-made Iranian satellite named Sina-1 was put into orbit by a Russian rocket.

Reza Taghipour, head of the Iranian space agency, said Iran would launch another satellite carrier by the end of the Iranian year on March 20, Fars said.

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Muslims in space !!!!!

[Buraku]

Jovian moons get top priority for next flagship mission
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/18outerplanets/index2.html

The $4.5 billion Jupiter tandem mission is still being studied by a team of international scientists, but NASA and European Space Agency officials decided it is the most "technically ready" mission to the outer planets, beating out competing probes that would have visited Saturn's hydrocarbon-rich moon Titan.
"Europa is just a tremendously exciting water world.

It has an underground ocean with probably more water in it than the Earth does," said Jim Green, director of the planetary science division at NASA headquarters.
"Ganymede is indeed the largest moon in the solar system, larger than Titan and significantly larger than Mercury," Green said.

...

Japan has expressed "major interest" in adding an additional orbiter to launch with Laplace for magnetic field studies at Jupiter, but there is no formal agreement yet, Green said.

Satellite Collision Triggers Calls For Space Traffic Regulations!!

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Satellite_Collision_Triggers_Calls_For_Space_Traffic_Regulations_999.html
General James Cartwright, the U.S. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it will take a month or two for the debris to settle down before they can effectively track it.

[Buraku]

NASA to name its Shitter after Stephen Colbert?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29863574

The Node 3 naming contest attracted nearly 1.2 million votes, with other write-in suggestions also coming in strong. "Myyearbook" placed third behind "Serenity" with 147,637 votes, while "Gaia" finished fourth at "114,427."

"We haven't decided on a name yet, but we're certainly not going to ignore more than 230,000 'Colbert' votes from the public," Yembrick noted.

[Takechanpoo]

[Greji]

Kimchese steal advanced technologies not only in Japan but also all over the world as their national policy. And after that, they insist "Our proud Kimch techieque is most advanced in the earth nida!".

Gotta point Take. The boy is 68 and if he gets sentenced to 60 years for all charges, that is really gonna mess up his future social calendar for quite awhile.....

[Buraku]

Nasa’s Mars lander Insight is going into ‘emergency hibernation’ and might die, space agency says
https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-mars-lander ... 19440.html

Kennedy and VonBraun could have got this shit done by the 60s, without doubt by the 1970s
http://astronautix.com/v/vonbraunmarpedition-1952.html

Let's fly some Aircraft, Helicopters on Mars?
https://www.cnet.com/news/ingenuity-hel ... -software/
Ingenuity helicopter's Mars flight delayed again while NASA updates software

previous plans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Exp ... Initiative
The old Dead Bush plans for Mars, Space Exploration Initiative was a 1989–1993 space public policy initiative of the George H. W. Bush administration.
In July 20, 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, George H. W. Bush said ...Mars Let's Go!

Constellation began in response to the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration under NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and little President George W. Bush Jnr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
After the 911 and the WTC Attacks Little Bush Jnr said ...Mars Let's Go!

So what became of his vision for Mars?
Costs of Wars climbed then Science was Cut, more Debts, More Fucking Wars, Money in the Red, Another Fucking War on another Flank in another Region, More Deficits...then Science is 'Delayed indefinitely' – the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), a mission to detect and study Earth-like planets, Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) was to place an observatory in space designed to detect dark matter, cancel, deleted, erased, LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), to search for ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, and Constellation-X, to study black holes – cancelled, chopped down, delayed indefinitely, more CERN-ish type stuff and atom smashers and space missions that would attempt to answer questions about the Big Bang, Black Holes and Dark Matter....gone Astrobiology research got 50% of funding slashed....A mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons thought to possibly contain liquid water and life, has also been axed, a mission called Mars Sample Return delayed, blocked.



and yet Billions of Dollars spent to Keep Mr America in Low Earth Orbit from 1972-2020

Robots have replaced the Mr America
https://www.gizbot.com/news/this-outdat ... 73737.html
This Outdated Smartphone Chipset Is The Driving Force Behind NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Also got to give credit to Musk
wasnt sure if the Private Sector could ever put man in space


Kamikaze Japan is 'honoured' to launch a Jihadist Islamic Mohammedan Lunar probe for the UAE in 2022 - 'World will be watching'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/ ... -mbrsc-evg

Biden Won't Nix the Space Force, But What is it Supposed to Be?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboo ... -be-182114

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The fresh look at old NASA data suggests that a robotic mission uncovered microbial life on Mars—more than 45 years ago?
Space probe Viking 1 landed on Mars
http://jhs1976.com/EverythingElse.html While early soil analyses from Viking 1 seemed to indicate either new chemical processes or new forms of life, these findings were ultimately not confirmed https://www.wired.com/2010/09/0903viking2-mars/



They in news media still complain the 'Space Force' badge looks too much like StarTrek



Space Command's home will be decided by Congress, Lamborn says
https://gazette.com/premium/space-comma ... 04e44.html

Japan vows to clean up space junk
https://thefrontierpost.com/japan-vows- ... pace-junk/

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NASA's Ingenuity completes FOURTH flight on Mars that was 'farther and faster than ever before'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... efore.html
Mars helicopter Ingenuity shifts into new operational test phase
https://news.yahoo.com/nasas-mars-helic ... 13040.html

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Japanese tycoon planning space station visit, then moon trip
https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/ ... 173875.php

China's Tianwen-1 mission getting set to try and land Zhurong rover on Mars
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /100101552

Elon Musk's SpaceX to Launch a Dogecoin-Funded Satellite to the Moon
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technol ... r-BB1gyW2b

Electronic crypto E-currency?

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China becomes first country after US to land spacecraft on Mars
https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/15/china-be ... -14587043/

China lands spacecraft on Mars for first time, will explore Utopia Planitia
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/3003 ... a-planitia