Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
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Amid an important election, natural disasters and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the exploration of the moon is proceeding apace. Three companies — two of them American and associated with NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Systems program, and one Japanese — are preparing to land on the lunar surface within the next few months. “
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Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, recently boasted that he will land five uncrewed Starship rockets on the surface of Mars in 2026. If all of those landing attempts are successful, he intends to follow up with the first crewed expedition to Mars by 2028.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed the plan, urging Musk to get people on Mars by the end of his prospective second term. And why not? The sight of human beings walking on the Red Planet would be a tremendous capstone on one of the most unusual and controversial political careers in history.