Rocket Launch from Wallops Island, as seen in NOVA

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this is the payload

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/panorama1_0.jpg

the mission, kinda

NASA launching robotic explorer to moon | Inquirer Business

As seen from Old Town Fairfax

 

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:thumbup: Not everyday shot.
One more to the Moon ? They really want to put another man on our natural satellite ? Should be easier than first time. With all this digital technology.

 

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China is planning on landing a man on the moon before the close of this year.

How America can cut funding on NASA programs, yet "Find Funding" for a run on Syria is beyond me, but that is a different story and perhaps not suitable for here. . .

 

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:thumbup: Not everyday shot.
One more to the Moon ? They really want to put another man on our natural satellite ? Should be easier than first time. With all this digital technology.

You would think sending another man to the moon would be easy for a country who has done it several times in the past using 1960's technology. Oddly enough, it seems reaching the moon today is darn near impossible. It makes you wonder sometimes.

 

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The entire year's budget for NASA would only keep the US Department of Defense going for part of a day.

The US does not have a rocket powerful enough to send men and all the equipment they would need to the moon.