I have listened to the tin foil hat conspiracy theories for many years and I never believed em... until I looked at this and really thought about it.
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Originally Posted by From Times Online
America?s dream of putting men on the Moon again took a giant leap forward with Lockheed Martin, the US defence contractor, gaining the $8 billion contract to build the Orion space capsule for Nasa.
The Orion capsule will to some extent resemble the Apollo 11 capsule that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon in 1969 but will be three times as large, with a crew cabin capacity of six for journeys to the International Space Station and four for proposed voyages to the Moon and Mars.
It will be reusable up to ten times. It will measure 5m (16.5ft) in diameter and will include a command module and a service module.
The first launch of Orion with human beings on-board is planned for 2014, with a human landing on the Moon no later than 2020. Link |
Now, I dunno about you guys but I smell something fishy. Here we are in the 21st century and it's going to take us around 14 years to put a man on the friggin moon? That should be childs play for us at this point. 2 years, sure... 14 years!?!?! Hell no.
I thought our biggest issue was getting men to Mars, not the moon.
Am I crazy for thinking this?