Moonbase Alpha in 2020 … NASA wants to have a permanent base on the Moon.
Remember Space 1999? That show where the Moon gets blown out of it’s orbit so it and Moonbase Alpha go hurtling across the galaxy? Oh yeah, I was a big fan as a kid. Well maybe it will become a reality after all. Hopefully not the Moon blowing out of orbit part (man that would wreak havoc on the Earth!), but the Moonbase part. NASA announced a plan to have a moonbase by 2020 and position it (likely) on the South Pole of the Moon.
The plan unveiled by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration this week envisages a manned base possibly on the moon’s south pole by around 2020, powered by sunlight and perhaps hydrogen and oxygen, with astronauts cruising over the lunar surface in pressurized rovers.
The colony would enable scientific research that could lead to eventual industrial ventures, processing rocket fuel and other products from oxygen or other materials that might be found beneath the moon’s surface, the US space agency said.
If you’d really like to hear some good stuff about this, check out this segment from The Hour. Man it sounds cool. Maybe I can be the first blogger on the Moon?
Tags: NASA, Moon, Moonbase, space travel
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