Mooning

[Miguel]

Looking for advice from scientific minded folk:
Was watching a BBC 4 programme on the Moon landings. The last one was over 40 years ago. My question is, leaving arguments on costs aside, would it be relatively simple to accomplish with today's technology, compared to what they had in the 1960s and 70s. Just curious...

[RyeSloan]

Looking for advice from scientific minded folk: Was watching a BBC 4 programme on the Moon landings. The last one was over 40 years ago. My question is, leaving arguments on costs aside, would it be relatively simple to accomplish with today's technology, compared to what they had in the 1960s and 70s. Just curious...

Sounds like you are planning your own trip!

[Beefster]

Looking for advice from scientific minded folk:
Was watching a BBC 4 programme on the Moon landings. The last one was over 40 years ago. My question is, leaving arguments on costs aside, would it be relatively simple to accomplish with today's technology, compared to what they had in the 1960s and 70s. Just curious...

I'd imagine so. The biggest problem would still be the size and complexity of the rocket required to escape our gravity. Modern day rockets wouldn't do the job. Advances in technology would make everything else easier than it was in the 60's though, I'd think.

PS All IMHO. I've been a space geek since an early age but am no expert.

[Glory Lurker]

I'd imagine so. The biggest problem would still be the size and complexity of the rocket required to escape our gravity. Modern day rockets wouldn't do the job. Advances in technology would make everything else easier than it was in the 60's though, I'd think.

PS All IMHO. I've been a space geek since an early age but am no expert.


:agree: I think I have heard that the computational capacity of an Apollo mission was less than you'd get on an i-phone. As you say, though, the hardware we'd need would be pretty much the same and we don't have any of that at the moment. I am not sure that there'd be anything to be gained from manned (or womanned) missions, though.

[hibby rae]

Do one of the proposals for a Mars mission not encompass a Moon landing first?

[hibby rae]

I went to a lecture by an astronaut a few months back at Edinburgh uni. He said the barriers facing a mission to Mars were not technological more that we don't know yet how to protect a human being from so much prolonged exposure to radiation etc. from the Sun.