• Question: What were your thoughts when the government stopped funding the 2nd Moon mission a few years back?

    Asked by BrennanW to Heather, Helen, Hugh, Jane, Julian on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Julian Onions

      Julian Onions answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I think all such lack of funding of space missions is sad. I’d like to see us moving out from the Earth and exploring new planets, making bases elsewhere.

      “A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.” Konstantin E. Tsiokovsky

    • Photo: Helen Johnson

      Helen Johnson answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      There have been tons more than 1 mission to the Moon! 😉 Really sad that we’ve stopped visiting though. We’ve sent plenty of probes and unmanned missions to other planets, and of course most recently to comet 67P, but I think it’s about time we started sending humans out to explore again. Astronauts and cosmonauts go to work on the International Space Station (ISS) and that’s very routine now… but how about Mars next?

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