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Followers  Top 150 Contributor Cabin Crew Captn Tommy Posted:
Fri, Apr 13 2012 5:42 PM  Come on People! Let's use a little
NON-COLD WAR brain power. I am of the cold war generation, and
thought a little more cooperation would go a long way. But now I
see NASA is going to design a NEW heavy lift vehicle... What do
we need that for? realy.....  1. Existing technology - I believe
the base rocket is the Ariene V or 5 (if you are not Roman) this
is a heavy lift Rocket. There is also the Atlas 5 and by God
there is the Shuttle technology. and that is just in the EU and
Russia.  2. We (The EARTH, not the various tribes) Have A Space
Station. (We just built it with current technology). Why not use
it to build our moon rocket from various parts. that is what the
scientists of the 1950s figured we'd do. then we would not need
anything b