NASA finally seems serious about a crewed lunar return—this time with the 1st female astronaut to walk on the Moon’s surface
At the end of Ron Howard’s film “Apollo 13,” Tom Hanks intones with a final, rueful quiver, “I look up at the Moon and wonder, when will we be going back? And who will that be?” Let’s hope that will be in five short years. As for who? NASA astronauts, at least one man and one woman, exploring our Moon’s South Pole.
To this day, NASA engineers will answer their own phones and eagerly talk openly to the media. But that’s rarely the case with commercial space startups. Too often, secrecy rules the day. Some reticence may be required to safeguard commercial patents and intellectual property, but science and engineering progresses fastest when there’s the free and open exchange of ideas on a global scale. Look to the burgeoning field of observational astronomy as a wonderful example.
Spaceplanes that were economical and efficient would lead the way to the first generation of lunar shuttles both for tourism and business. They would be shuttles that could reach low-Earth orbit and then readily do a trans-lunar injection to push then onto a lunar orbital trajectory.
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