Selenology (Lunar Science) To-Do list

[Swampcat]

<font color="yellow">"...act before midnight tonight and all this can be yours!"</font><br /><br />Darn, I missed the deadline <img src="/images/icons/mad.gif" />.<br /><br />My preference, as I've said before, is a retirement home on the Moon. I'll leave all that exciting stuff to the young folks. All I want is a nice low g habitat that's easy on my cardiovascular and skeletal systems with some gardening space for some herb(s) (hydroponics is just fine) and a cat to keep me company. My family can always contact me at swampcat@luna.net <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[spacester]

Great list, kadetken! Thank you!<br /><br />I'll have to comment later, I've got to keep a date with a turkey . . . <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[JonClarke]

"The radiation problem, as well as other medical problems which will arise from a few weeks in space doing a 'local moon tour' have to be addressed. For instance, the presence of significant amount space sickness, which will take days to adjust out of, requiring highly sedating promethazine dosing."<br /><br />Are you taking about the journey there? Space sickness did not stop the Apollo astronauts working effectively when they got there and we are much better at dealing with it now than then.<br /><br />Are you talking about space sickness on the Moon? None was reported on any of the Apollo missions. There is no reason to expect that future misisons will be any different.<br /><br />Too much is made of space sickness, as if it were a show stopper. It has not stopped a single mission yet. Ever worked at sea? I have. If I don't take drugs I end up vomiting blood in a few hours. It has not stopped me being productive at sea yet. Sea sickness is much worse than anything experienced by astronauts. I have colleagues who have been on IV for weeks at a time because of deydration and inability to even keep drugs down. I have had colleagues evacuated by helicopter for the same reason. Ever worked on an aerial survey? I have. Bumping round in a small plane at 100 metres for hours on end trying to look at instruments is real gut churning stuff. But people do it all time, flying airborne geophysics (elevation, multispectral, hyperspectral, gravity magnetic, radar and electromagentic) surveys. To say nothing of the nutters who fly into storms for a living. <br /><br />"But the radiation hazard is the real one, and unless that one & others are forthrightly addressed, and these have not been, either on a biological or medical basis, there are going to be problems in space travel and returning to earth."<br /><br />Wrong. There has been a lot of research on these topics. radiation in particular has been extensively studied. We know the amount of radiation people will <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>