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Old 14-August-2007, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by tofu View Post
If NASA had a set large enough to fake the mountains, then they should be able to fake stars.
Actually, they did have a fairly large set, which came preloaded with stars and mountains in all the right positions. It was located quite a distance away, and required a good bit of ingenuity and a few days travel to reach it.

The name of that set was "The Moon."
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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