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From the Moon to the Planetoids?
Once you leave the Earth-Moon system, a mission takes MONTHS!!
Raoul
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1/19/2008 6:34:21 AM
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The Moon can be a minimum of one week.
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Ares 1..Orion
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Raoul
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1/18/2008 8:07:17 PM
CZ5
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E.P.
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1/21/2008 5:04:58 PM
I think Bigelow will get there before NASA
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Buck Galaxy
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1/19/2008 3:11:32 AM
That may be why NASA is in no apparent hurry.
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Bowser
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1/19/2008 10:51:32 PM
It would be better.
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Buck Galaxy
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1/19/2008 11:08:43 PM
Forget 100 people... How about just 3 or 5 people...
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TAFKASE
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1/21/2008 3:06:04 PM
Space X's Dragon is also farther along than the CEV
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Lee
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1/19/2008 5:05:25 PM
I like the outlook as well
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Buck Galaxy
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1/19/2008 11:03:16 PM
From the Moon to the Planetoids?
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Socrates II
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1/19/2008 3:10:06 AM
re: Lagrange points and asteroids
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Raoul
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1/19/2008 7:27:39 PM
Once you leave the Earth-Moon system, a mission takes MONTHS!!
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Raoul
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1/19/2008 6:34:21 AM
But since we are planning to go to Mars and beyond anyway...
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Socrates II
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1/20/2008 3:47:56 PM
What's a few month? Everything, in terms of manned spaceflight!
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Raoul
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1/20/2008 4:24:45 PM
I think 1st you need to prove you can manufacture something useful on one or more NEOs
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TAFKASE
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1/21/2008 3:12:00 PM
We already know there are no ores and that they're often covered with meters of dust
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Raoul
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1/21/2008 7:13:20 PM
re: What's a few months?
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Raoul
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1/20/2008 9:20:19 PM
Some day we are going to be doing more than the Moon and Mars
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Socrates II
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1/21/2008 6:22:25 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.