Comments on: Turkey to do lunar mission, send astronaut into space https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-to-do-lunar-mission-send-astronaut-into-space/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-to-do-lunar-mission-send-astronaut-into-space/#comment-1110678 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:42:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73090#comment-1110678 Jeff Wright,
One of the exciting things about having a commercial manned space industry is that they can sell seats on their spacecraft to countries that cannot afford their own rockets and manned spacecraft, so it is easy and inexpensive for Turkey to send a citizen on a science mission in space. Bigelow, Axiom, or Ixion are also proposing space habitats that can also be rented to the same countries. Manned space programs are now affordable for many or most countries. All they have to do is rent or lease space on commercial suppliers.

There are plenty of companies developing lunar landers that can carry a country’s experiments or rovers to the Moon.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-to-do-lunar-mission-send-astronaut-into-space/#comment-1110608 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:54:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73090#comment-1110608 Buy a modified Soyuz and have a Proton launch a Podsaka type hypergolic upper stage used for insertion into a Zond type circumlunar thump, like Mark Wade -and Space Advenures?-talked about doing years ago. I am surprized this hasn’t been done already-skimming a few km above the surface as a stunt.

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