Discovery, Science to Televise Live Moon Landing

[PoliticAverse]

Discovery and Science Channels are headed to the moon.

The sibling cable networks have signed on to chronicle the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition for privately funded teams to land an unmanned craft on the moon by Dec. 31, 2015.

The networks will chronicle the historic race with a miniseries event that follows teams from around the world as they race to complete the requirements for the grand prize: landing a craft on the surface of the moon, traveling 500 meters and transmitting live pictures and video back to Earth.

Read the rest at: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/discovery-science-televise-live-moon-692978

[sakabatou]

1. That's interesting

Will there be any manned missions coming back?

[PoliticAverse]

2. There's actually a Wikipedia page for keeping tabs on that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_missions_to_the_Moon

And there's speculation on a Chinese plan to build a base on the moon:
http://www.universetoday.com/107716/china-considers-manned-moon-landing-following-breakthrough-change-3-mission-success/

[Callmecrazy]

3. Not until they open the MFM Lunar Lounge.

And of course, pants are optional.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. I have a 6 DVD set...

of all the Apollo mission coverage. That was America at its peak.

[rickyhall]

5. As NASA fades into the ether

Apollo 11 was the peak, it's been downhill ever since

[4lbs]

7. Yeah, I mean NASA can't even land a spacecraft on Mars, or send one to Jupiter, or Saturn.

Wait....

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/


The moon is nice and all, but it's kind of... uh.... 20th Century.

[rickyhall]

8. They put a man on Mars and missed it?

I was referring to the US as a whole. We should have had a Lunar colony by now. Not NASA fault though.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. No, but they have done some incredible stuff on a shoestring budget.

We have now sent probes to every planet in the solar system (Pluto, of course, being a Dwarf planet- but we have one on the way there, too, as well as on the way to fellow dwarf planet Ceres)

Obviously, no, humans have not been to Mars. But getting 10 years of operational use out of 2 rovers designed for 30 day missions... impressive. NASA has done an awesome job.

I agree we don't invest enough in science and exploration of the universe we inhabit, though.

[AdHocSolver]

6. Will the private sector be careful not to contaminate the moon.

Or, will they go for the lowest cost project they can get away with and turn the moon into a "garbage dump?"