14-10-2013, 11:14 AM
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Re: Off to the Moon again.
BY STEPHEN CLARKSPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: October 6, 2013
NASA's LADEE spacecraft slipped into orbit around the moon Sunday, beginning a feverish four-month campaign to demonstrate a next-generation laser communications system and answer long-standing questions about the nature and origin of the tenuous lunar atmosphere.
Oh it's all so very exciting isn't it.
Having heard no news of LADEE (I'm all behind arn't I
) since he set off I was getting worried so I checked up on him and I'm glad to say He's safe and well collecting dust orbiting the Moon, unfortunately he's on a suicide mission and will crash into the Moon in a few months time, sad init, wonder will NASA be playing "And another one bites the dust" when it crashes.
14-10-2013, 12:58 PM
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Re: Off to the Moon again.
Originally Posted by Jem
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Everyone is entitled to believe what they like and I'm on record here for not believing man landed on the moon in 1969, the more I read about it the more convinced I am. This latest mission nearly 50 years on and with vast improvements in technology they can only send a Robot to collect moon dust and do other experiments, didn't the last men on the moon do all that?, why couldn't they send men this time? or does it prove that no living thing can get through the Van Allen radiation belt as all the non believers say?.
maybe they thought it unnecessary to send humans when the capabilities of robots have improved to such a great extent since the 60s.
...'Fly me to the Moon' ....... 
14-10-2013, 10:18 PM
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Re: Off to the Moon again.
Originally Posted by Jem
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Did you all see this photo of the frog caught up in the blast off of the Moon Robot, seems he was sucked up from a nearby pond and that was the end of him, poor chap.
I hope you are going to explain that picture, Jem
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