Wednesday 24 November 2010

L2-Farside Project

Lockheed Martin announces its proposal to send a manned spacecraft to park at the L2 Lagrange point.  Once their, the crew can spend a month controlling unmanned rovers on the far side of the Moon so that... They can... We need to...

Looks like we've got another one of those projects on our hands that looks cool but doesn't actually pay back the investment.

4 comments:

Sergej said...

And this is the blog/site that brought Gerry Anderson's UFO to my attention. Haven't we learned anything?

Anonymous said...

Well what WOULD pay back the investment would be setting up some sort of asteroid impact defence. The various plans floated for that include snatching a small asteroid and putting it in a convenient orbit, perhaps around one of the Lagrange points, and then flinging it into an oncoming rogue asteroid.

That's a kind of expenditure that everybody should be able to get behind.

jayessell said...

There is a short scifi story from the 1950s
With the premise that there is no back of the moon.

Bryan said...

I thought our asteroid defense was to send Bruce Willis and a ragtag team of oil wildcatters to fly the space shuttle and blow it up.