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8/28 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4192166.stm Malasia to put man on the moon by 2020, with a budget of 25m. Eh, ok. Whatever. Are they high on opium? \_ I can put several men on the moon by 2020 for significantly less than that. Note that, like the article, I didn't say anything about "alive" or "round trip". -John \_ I guess they didn't mention anything about bring man back *FROM* the moon :p \_ I think they can do it if they relax some of the constraints, like getting the astronaut there alive. \_ They must have found a free rocket somewhere, because $25M won't even get the corpse of an astronaut there. \_ You don't get the dead body back either |
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| news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4192166.stm Printable version Malaysia has high hopes for moon By Jonathan Kent BBC News, Kuala Lumpur Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon during the first US lunar mission in July 1969 Malaysia hopes to emulate the success of the US in 1969 Malaysia has announced that it hopes to put a man on the moon by the year 2020 as part of its $25m space programme. The Science and Technology Minister, Jamaludin Jarjis, said he would be p resenting a plan to the cabinet. Mr Jarjis says the country needs to build up a pool of trained astronauts in preparation. But such dreams were almost immediately called into question when the fir st batch of would-be space explorers struggled with a simple fitness tes t Mission not-impossible Malaysia is a nation of seemingly limitless ambition. Having already built what were the world's tallest buildings, it must see m only a short hop from there to the moon. On Saturday, the first group from a shortlist of more than 800 would-be a stronauts set out to run 35km (two miles) in a leisurely 20 minutes. All were hoping to claim Malaysia's seat on a Russian-led space mission, scheduled for 2007. Some observers wondered whether their performance might be linked to the local diet. Earlier this year, the country announced a programme to put Malaysia's fa vourite foods into space. A team is to be sent to Houston in Texas to find out how to process teh t arik (sweet tea), roti canai (flaky griddled pancakes) and nasi lemak (c oconut rice) for consumption in zero gravity. However, no one should write off Malaysia's chances of achieving its late st goal. The country has transformed itself from a largely rural society to a high -tech led economy in just 20 years, and refuses to believe that any miss ion is impossible. |