![]() ![]() so let's head to Mars!īut before this gigantic challange, some important issues have to be tackled, one of them the "extreme radiation" of the Van-Allen belts according to Kelly Smith, NASA engineer. Okay, so according to NASA itself, it is a serious challange to go back to the moon. Of course it would help A LOT to have the original telemetry data for analysis, luckly, NASA is a goverment agency and those document everything, right? - Unfortunately, according to Richard Nafzger, television processing chief during the Apollo 11 mission, those two-hundred-thousand(!!!) tapes were erased and reused due to some budgeting issues, "we should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them, we are going to keep them'." We used to but we destroyed that technology and it's a painful process to build it back again." The problem is we don't have the technology to do that anymore. However, and let me quote some important NASA people here, they'd (Don Pettit, astronaut) "go to the moon in an nanosecond. ![]()
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