India to Russia: 'Sod you, Vlad, we're going to the moon ALONE'

iajdani said:

Russia is USSR minus the liabilities.. That is what Yeltsin wanted.

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mike2000 is back said:

Lol poor Russia. seems even India doesn't trusts Russia's rockets?


So is India launching the moon rover probe next year or in 2022 Anthe article says?
Since the article mentions two different dates .

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Echo_419 said:

Our 2nd lunar mission was supposed to be a JV with Russians but it seems they are not keen to participate due to tech constraint so we are gonna do this alone

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mike2000 is back said:

Good initiative, better for India to sometimes do things by itself when it can than relying on others. though it might take more time than the original time table of 2016-2017. But it's still worth it even if it slips to 2018-2020. At the end of the day it will be worth it for India.

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SipahSalar said:

Talk about reinventing the wheel, What will they do at the moon? Waste of money.

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Echo_419 said:

Actually the mission is planned for 2017 & we are hopeful of getting it right the 1st time

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One of many problems associated with using helium-3 to create energy via nuclear fusion is that, at least on the Earth, helium-3 is very, very rare indeed. Helium-3 is produced as a by-product of the maintenance of nuclear weapons, which could net a supply of around 15Kg a year. Helium-3 is, however, emitted by the Sun within its solar winds. Our atmosphere prevents any of this helium-3 arriving on the Earth. However, as it does not have an atmosphere, there is nothing to stop helium-3 arriving on the surface of the Moon and being absorbed by the lunar soil. As a result, it has been estimated that there are around 1,100,000 metric tonnes of helium-3 on the surface of the Moon down to a depth of a few metres. This helium-3 could potentially be extracted by heating the lunar dust to around 600 degrees C, before bringing it back to the Earth to fuel a new generation of nuclear fusion power plants.

As reported in an Artemis Project paper, about 25 tonnes of helium-3 -- or a fully-loaded Space Shuttle cargo bay's worth -- could power the United States for a year. This means that helium-3 has a potential economic value in the order of $3bn a tonne -- making it the only thing remotely economically viable to consider mining from the Moon given current and likely-near-future space travel technologies and capabilities.

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AugenBlick said:

ExplainingTheFuture.com : Helium-3 Power


We need the new cryo for this .

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Echo_419 said:

Damm we need to move fast

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AugenBlick said:

Space colonization is our chance to rapidly make a prosperous society like west made itself after colonizing us.
This would be like hitting oil.

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Echo_419 said:

Indeed space is what Sea was in earlier centuries which ever country fails to releaize its potential will regreat it highly

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The_Sidewinder said:

Even theres considerable evidence out there that USAs appolo 11 moon landing might be a hoax.

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