New Scientist writes:
"SpaceX is launching Blue Ghost and Resilience landers to the moonTwo companies, Firefly Aerospace and ispace, are aiming to make the second and third successful private landings on the moon - and both are launching on the same Falcon 9 rocket.
Two private spacecraft aiming to land on the moon are set to blast off onboard a SpaceX rocket, in a sign of increasing commercial activity on the lunar surface.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander and ispace’s Resilience lander have both got a ride on the same Falcon 9 rocket, which is currently scheduled to liftoff on 15 January at 6.11am GMT (1.11am EST) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida."
Echos of colonial times? "The fatal impact?"
At least there are no natives to enslave or exterminate with flu and syphilis - at least as far as we know.
Perhaps we will find a way to trasport our unwanted human under-caste there?
Roger
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RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830