Heat84 left by Apollo astronauts 50 years back on the moon How do they know meteors haven’t hit the spot where the pile is and pulverized it? Why don’t one of you guys with a telescope look and see if it’s still there.😂
telcodad Heat84 It doesn’t sound like the challenge is to recycle those old bags of poop, but to develop a solution “for processing inorganic waste streams like food packaging, discarded clothing, and science experiment materials. ” From: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-seeks-innovators-for-lunar-waste-competition/ A new NASA competition, the LunaRecycle Challenge, is open and offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions. As NASA continues efforts toward long-duration human space travel, including building a sustained human presence on the Moon through its Artemis missions, the agency needs novel solutions for processing inorganic waste streams like food packaging, discarded clothing, and science experiment materials. While previous efforts focused on the reduction of trash mass and volume, this challenge will prioritize technologies for recycling waste into usable products needed for off-planet science and exploration activities. … I’d rather work to recover that old Vanguard-1 satellite: https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/2268-engineers-want-to-bring-the-vanguard-1-satellite-back-home 🙂
Somewhat-Reticent Both: starts with “technologies that can convert these long-abandoned waste bags—containing feces, urine, and vomit—into usable resources”, expanding the mission to “sustainable space exploration” in the long run. Ah, ambition.
px_eliezer_ “One small shit for man….” “One giant crap for mankind”. I’m glad those poops are there. NASA/Musk/Bezos should fly some moon-landing deniers to the moon to help with the cleanup, and say to them, SEE! SEE!