OK. Maybe I can live with that. ----- Original Message ----- From: <diveboss@xmission.com> To: <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] NASA's plan to return to the moon | Quoting Kim Hyatt <kimharch@cut.net>: | | > My memory is far from perfect, | > but I can't recall a single bit of science being reported that was grounded | > in experiments done aboard the ISS. Anyone? | | | If we plan on establishing a permanent base station on the Moon, or if we plan | on travelling beyond the Moon to distant planets, we will need to know just | what medical effects long term exposure to zero gravity will have on the | human body. I think ISS provides a great and necessarty platform for that | research, as well as providing a living environment that could be used as a | model for living quarters once on the Moon. | | If you're going to live on the Moon or travel long distances you are going to | need to know how long certain supplies last, how well your toilets function, | how to provide water, how to make your air supply last longer, all kinds of | things that the ISS does on a daily basis. | | You need to know how humans can coexist for extended stays in otherwise | cramped quarters. A whole host of things that can't be done on Earth. So I | think the ISS, in a not so glamorous way, is a great platform for the study | of the things that NASA will need to know to advance space travel. But I | could be wrong... | | _______________________________________________ | Utah-Astronomy mailing list | Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com | http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy | Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com | | ______________________________________________________________________ | This e-mail has been scanned by Cut.Net Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on Cut.Nets Content Service, visit http://www.cut.net | ______________________________________________________________________ | |