NASA Estimates Moon Rocket Will Cost $104 billion

[miri]

NASA Estimates Moon Rocket Will Cost $104B

 

[Bootprint]

Late 50's, early 60's technology ain't cheap.

 

[ctracyw]

We can borrow it from the chinese.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: ctracyw
We can borrow it from the chinese.

Just like we do $300 to $450 Billion each year! :roll:

(Slightly over $1,000,000,000 per day)

 

[loup garou]

Launch it Iraq and call it a day.

 

[Soccerman06]

What ever happened to setting a foot on Mars by 2020? I thought we were suppose to go back to the moon in 2012-2014 not 2018.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: miri
NASA Estimates Moon Rocket Will Cost $104B

That's a very misleading title. It's not the rocket that costs $104 billion, it's the entire program that will return us to the Moon.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Only about half of Katrina relief.

 

[sao123]

we need to spend that money on a shuttle replacement which can get us to the moon and otehr planets.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: miri
NASA Estimates Moon Rocket Will Cost $104B

That's a very misleading title. It's not the rocket that costs $104 billion, it's the entire program that will return us to the Moon.

Hopefully that amount includes building a self sustaining moonbase. Can you grow tomatos on the moon?

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Only about half of Katrina relief.

That was an extremely insensitive comment. :thumbsdown:

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: miri
NASA Estimates Moon Rocket Will Cost $104B

That's a very misleading title. It's not the rocket that costs $104 billion, it's the entire program that will return us to the Moon.

Hopefully that amount includes building a self sustaining moonbase. Can you grow tomatos on the moon?

The bigger question is "Can you grow potatoes on Uranus?"

 

[Printer Bandit]

Why does it take so long to go back? If we could get there in a rusty tin box with computers that have the processing power of handheld calcutors, then with today's technology/resources it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Insomniak]

Yay moon!


I remember when W was talking about building a base on the moon or some nonsense. I thought it was just something he was mumbling about while he was lost in one of his coloring books, or maybe bouncing around on his pogo stick, but apparently he actually ordered an aid capable of touch typing to write something up about it.

Astounding.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Only about half of Katrina relief.

That was an extremely insensitive comment. :thumbsdown:

I think he was just showing off his math skillz.

 

[GTaudiophile]

This moon stuff won't get any traction. Kinda stupid IMO. Been there, done that. We need to go to Mars!

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
This moon stuff won't get any traction. Kinda stupid IMO. Been there, done that. We need to go to Mars!

the moon is the best way to get to mars. i would however argue that the moon is exactly where we need to go. does it make more sense to colonize the moon or mars first? the moon of course.

 

[Queasy]

Dr Evil: "I put the freakin' Allan Parsons Project on the moon for less than that."

 

[dave127]

Originally posted by: sao123
we need to spend that money on a shuttle replacement which can get us to the moon and otehr planets.

If you had read the article, they said that the vehicle taking the lunar capsule to the moon IS the shuttle replacement...thus it will already be in service by the time we go there, i think they said the latest for the retirement of the current shuttle is 2014

Dave

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: miri
NASA Estimates Moon Rocket Will Cost $104B

That's a very misleading title. It's not the rocket that costs $104 billion, it's the entire program that will return us to the Moon.

except NASA can never keep to it's estimates . . .

expect 10.4 Trillion dollars
[and at least a decade late]
:roll:

maybe we could get Lucas and Spielberg to "do" the landing and we save the money

 

[SeaSerpent]

Imagine all the hungry people we could feed.

 

[Goosemaster]

mmm...hey!...cletus!...put some more of d'em hundreds on da fire...

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
Imagine all the hungry people we could feed.

Imagine all the hungry people that can be ground up and turned into rocket fuel.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
Imagine all the hungry people we could feed.

hungry people are just a bottomless pit.
feed 'em once and 6 hrs later they're hungry.
Where does it all end??

 

[StrangerGuy]

$104 billion Only?