March 2008 – Return to the Moon: With a new era of lunar exploration dawning as more probes are launched to try to unlock the Moon’s darkest secrets, Patrick Moore finds out about British ambitions to get there. Dr Chris Lintott travels to NASA to hear about plans to blast a crater in the lunar surface and and meets the astronauts who may be the next men on the Moon.
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Filed under: The Sky at Night
We've had nuclear powered submarines for 40 years and by all accounts, they work fine and the men who serve on them aren't placed at anymore risk than staffers who run nuclear energy facilities.
If we're serious about space exploration beyond the space shuttle and a return to the moon in 2020, then we must begin to think outside the box and come up with new and more efficient ways for propulsion.
I'd rather have nuclear energy used for space than for energy on earth.
Oooh shuttle launch day today, not many space shuttle missions left, maybe they'll save money up for a return to the moon!
Twice when my kids were younger, there was a meteor shower or shooting stars or some kind of cosmic happening. I set my alarm, woke up the kids in the middle of the night and we took sleeping bags outside and lay in our big back yard and looked up at the sky. Just looking up at the sky at night is a pretty wonderful thing.
Judi said———–You people are not old. I remember my grandmother and my mother and my aunts talking in the kitchen one evening. They were going over the changes they had seen in life and trying to decide which was the best advancement for the world. They talked about everything from cars to men on the moon, when my grandmother said,” The very best invention in my lifetime has been running water in the kitchen.” That stopped the discussion!