Return to the moon! Or perhaps not

Hi

Firstly sorry about the incredibly long time since my last blogular entry.

This post is a sort of rant about the future of space flight, or rather the lack of a foreseeable future! Currently man is sat in earth orbit, doing lots of jolly interesting experiments on the space station. Yet to my mind it's not the same as the old days of Apollo.

That was a time when one we had to win the space race and, two a time when we went places. Yes it was dangerous there was inumerable risks and near misses on nearly every Apollo mission. But we dared to go! And crucially there was no health and safety!

And that is one of the main reason why we haven't been back to the moon, the Apollo scientists and Astranouts themselves said that if they tried to repeat what they did, today the answer would be a resounding NO.

America however as promised to be back to the moon by 2020 but with the current economic climate can you see it? I for one cannot.What we really do need is another space race this would give NASA and ESA the real urge to head for the moon. It is however unlikely that with the problems on earth, (the economic crisis) space exsploration will be given such a priority as it was in the sixties.

Kyle