On Yahoo! today there was an AP “story”:1 on using the Hubble telescope to look for oxygen-bearing minerals on the moon. As quoted…

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

p. Doesn’t that just sound absolutely lame? Kind of like strapping some “JATO”:3 rockets on a “Yugo”:2 (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.

[1(Yahoo! story on the Hubble)]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051019/ap_on_sc/hubble_moon

[2(Wikipedia on the Yugo)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo

[3(Wikipedia on the JATO rocket car)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car