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I sit really possible/desirable?

It is possible, and NEOs may offer interesting ressources, but there is nothing in that paper. Why do they use the Sun-Earth system and not the Earth-Moon? The condition C>C1 is very weak and would have been much better had it been applied to the Earth-Moon system.

The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago. With its superior lift capability, the SLS will allow us to explore cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons and beyond.

"Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation" - NASA's and Lockheed Martin's 2nd thoughts of returning to the moon..

They want so much to reduce the price of the program that they forgot that the ultimate goal is Mars ... cos' this would not be a technology demonstration anymore ... am I wrong ?

Read before you go to Rijksmuseum;) My fav quote though: "US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery." I could find one or two...

nice story indeed :-)

More amazing stuff from Saturn.

Europe is less far and there is also an ocean beneath the surface (at least we think...), and it's bigger. Nasa planned a mission to Europe some years ago but it was cancelled because of budget cut because of... war in Irak !

It may not show up on MapQuest, but NASA scientists are betting that the best route to Jupiter and its ice-crusted moon Europa runs through an underwater cavern in Mexico.

Researchers have demonstrated a spinning liquid mirror design that could be used for the main mirror of a huge infrared telescope based on the moon.

See, I told you smashing things around in the solar system is useful!

Agree, but they knew from before..... see last post

"slides which were presented by an executive at Toyota during some kind of task force meeting that discusses Japan's direction/strategy in space exploration"

big big booster coming ... !

even bigger booster also coming: China Aims To Build World's Largest Rocket "Back in March, China revealed it is studying the feasibility of designing the most powerful carrier rocket in history for making a manned moon landing and exploring deep space, according to Liang Xiaohong, vice head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. The rocket is envisaged to have a payload of 130 tonnes, five times larger than that of China's current largest rocket. This rocket, if built, will eclipse the 53 tonne capacity of the planned Falcon 9 Heavy from SpaceX. It will even surpass the largest rocket ever built, the 119-tonne Saturn V."

still only "is studying the feasibility of designing a powerful carrier rocket" - we could easily do the same at no cost almost ... but still ... they might be serious ...

Mining the moon - now we know that the Moon's poles hold millions of tonnes of water ice, firms in the US as well as the Indian and Chinese space agencies are planning to mine this resource and sell it to space missions as fuel.

Works for mercury as well.

for the ACT architects .... Can we do the same for the Moon Village? We brainstorm on some mathematical simplified objectives for growing the settlement (taking inputs from the modular growth, resources, terrain suitability etc ....), we define some simple rules for growth and we optimize. ..... easy peasy (i am serious)

i agree, with most of the parameters that would actually be really cool. but doesn't it get very messy once economy plays a large factor?

We can start studying the ideal case, or add also some economical constraints on the settlement layout ...

Thibault, 30, said taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the "first man on the Moon".

One more reason why we should be much more open about all these EO data we have .... The two citizen scientists, Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano, are listed as authors on the scientific paper recently published. I love this: the digital nature of these data make it far, far easier to analyze the science than it was in the past, and also easier to get the data out to people. Because of this, we have an explosive growth in these kinds of projects. Planet Hunters is great, but then so is Galaxy Zoo, Moon Mappers, Ice Hunters, and so many others. You can find several of these collected at the CosmoQuest website.

Wiktor is also collecting these science games in the ACT-wiki. You should have a look at: http://sophia.estec.esa.int/actwiki/index.php/On-line_Games_4_Science