Knowledge of the Moon predates the human species if we go by the female 28 day (ie, lunar month) cycle.
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Last Wednesday, the Moon to Mars Commission set up by Mr Bush in January to look at how to achieve his vision of a return of astronauts to the moon followed by human exploration of Mars said in its report that NASA must thin its bureaucracy and involve the private sector as much as possible, in everything from earth-bound research to spacecraft launches.
We should do it because in a nation where we split the atom, sent a man to the moon, mapped the human genome, where we have some of the most promising treatments and cures available, hard working people should get the care they need when they're sick.
Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.
Few remember the number of steps Neil Armstrong took when he landed on the moon, but they remember he was the first human being who stepped on the moon.
But establishing a human presence on the moon itself is not, actually, Mr Bush's ultimate ambition.
Establishing an extended human presence on the moon could vastly reduce the cost of further space exploration, making possible ever more ambitious missions.
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Experience gained from new journeys to the Moon would be used in "human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond", the president said.
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The next five years will also see China paving the way towards putting a human being on the Moon, making it only the second country to have done so.
Using the crew exploration vehicle, we will undertake extended human missions to the moon as early as 2015, with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time.
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"Going for marriage is like shooting for the moon, " says Elizabeth Birch, head of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay political group.
He fixes the drones that protect earth's only remaining industry, a vast extractive operation that's supposedly providing power for an ongoing human migration to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Although the scope of Mr Augustine's latest review does not allow for such an explicit conclusion this time, it would still be able to place more emphasis on private-sector human spaceflight and demand more unmanned missions to the moon.
Anyone able to perceive the Great Wall from the moon would have to have an eye keen enough to see a human hair from a distance of two miles.
They were angered by a panel appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, to advise him on possible human-rights violations during the war.
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Yet after the moon missions in the 1960s, NASA was never funded to follow its ambitious vision for human spaceflight.
With the experience and knowledge gained on the moon, we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration: human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond.
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The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
In other words, human exploration of the solar system does not have to be fixed doggedly on the moon first and Mars later.
With no means of communicating with the outside world, and no other human beings within thousands of miles, this was the Edwardian equivalent of an Apollo moon shot, but one that lasted years, not months.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for all men and women to be relentless in standing for our common values, for peace and human rights.
And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to develop mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed at avoiding large asteroid impacts of the type we were all recently made aware with that grazing meteor strike in Chelyabinsk and the simultaneous near-miss by big-rock DA14.
Those were the first words that any human being ever spoke on another world, when Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the Moon in 1969.
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