On Yahoo! today there was an AP story on using the Hubble telescope to look for oxygen-bearing minerals on the moon. As quoted…

The space agency hopes to return astronauts to the moon by 2018 using Apollo-like capsules and rockets made of shuttle parts.

Doesn’t that just sound absolutely lame? Kind of like strapping some JATO rockets on a Yugo (oh, except JATO rockets usually don’t blow up). I mean 2018 is 12 years from now! How about using some hi-tech stuff like chewing gum, duct tape and bailing wire?

BTW NASA… the moon… been there, done that.