Eight full-size school buses fit in the nose shroud of the Ares V rocket NASA wants to use to send astronauts back to the moon, according to the space agency. Or a telescope about four times wider than the Hubble with, consequently, a much bigger light-gathering mirror. Theoretically, this is all about the International Year of Astronomy. But it might also have something to do with the skepticism recently raised by Barry’s aides about NASA’s back-to-the-moon plans. Or not.
Via Space Weather.
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Wow. That goes both for the rocket – 180 ton is a heck of payload – and for the telescope.
Somehow I doubt that much money would be spent for a telescope. Of course, there’d be no point in sending school buses, either. Unless we want to add to the “carbon footprint” of the moon.
Somehow I doubt that much money would be spent for a telescope. Of course, there’d be no point in sending school buses, either. Unless we want to add to the “carbon footprint” of the moon.