Lunar X contestants will abide by Nasa Moon rules. One company plans landing on Lunar pole. - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The organizers of the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize say their contestants [URL="http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/media/press-releases/nasa-offers-guidelines-protect-historic-sites-moon"]will abide[/URL] by [URL="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47557457/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/going-moon-dont-touch-artifacts-nasa-says/"]NASA's appeal[/URL] to stay away from the Apollo landing sites and other places where U.S. moon probes ended up.Last week, NASA laid down its guidelines for private moon missions, with an eye toward preserving sites such as the place where Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took "one small step" onto the lunar surface in 1969. Space agency officials were worried that visiting spacecraft could ruin the sites, or try to salvage some of the historic hardware, or kick up moondust to obscure the tracks that have lasted for four decades. The X Prize program is offering a multimillion-dollar payoff for the first team to land on the moon, take a 500-meter trek and send back high-definition images. It's also offering bonuses for taking pictures of an Apollo landing site or other "Lunar Heritage" site. But the X Prize organizers promise to take NASA's rules into account when approving the mission plans for the 26 teams vying for the prize. That means an X Prize team won't be allowed to land within 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of the Apollo 11 site, or send a rover any closer than 75 meters (246 feet). One of the teams, Pittsburgh-based[URL="http://astrobotic.net/"]Astrobotic Technology[/URL], had planned to [URL="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30478933/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/moon-rover-targets-apollo-landing-site/"]take a close look at Apollo 11's artifacts and footprints[/URL], but President John Thornton said the venture has shifted its primary target to the [URL="http://astrobotic.net/icebreaker-prospecting-the-moon/"]lunar north pole[/URL]. "The most exciting and most meaningful thing for mankind to do on the moon is to find water ice at the pole," he told me today. Astrobotic is aiming to launch its Icebreaker mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in October 2015. Because no NASA probes ever landed or crashed in the area, the venture won't have to worry about the guidelines, at least for its first lunar mission. Although NASA's lunar hardware is off-limits, Thornton said there's a "wild card" in the deck for potential moon targets. NASA's rules don't say anything about avoiding non-NASA probes, such as the Soviet Luna landers and Lunokhod rovers. In fact, at one time Astrobotic was talking with the current owner of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_2"]Lunokhod 2[/URL], video-game developer and millionaire spaceflier [URL="http://richardgarriott.com/"]Richard Garriott[/URL], about making an up-close inspection of the rover he bought from the Russians in 1993. "You've got to inspect the goods, right?" Thornton joked.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47557457/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/going-moon-dont-touch-artifacts-nasa-says/[/url]

it didn't happen anyway it was all staged

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;36132241]it didn't happen anyway it was all staged[/QUOTE] well we'll see now if these are actual trips to the moon won't we?

Actual moon travel for your every day citizen feels so close reading this. I don't know why.

[QUOTE=VaSTinY;36132289]well we'll see now if these are actual trips to the moon won't we?[/QUOTE] Nope. All fake. The moon is just a hologram projected on the sky by the illuminati to deceive people from the truth that the world is really flat.

[QUOTE=OvB;36132450]Nope. All fake. The moon is just a hologram projected on the sky by the illuminati to deceive people from the truth that the world is really flat.[/QUOTE] Actually, everything is fake. You're actually a digital entity being simulated inside a supercomputer. Everything is fake, just a bunch of electrons zipping around.

[QUOTE=Milkdairy;36131472]Source: [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47557457/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/going-moon-dont-touch-artifacts-nasa-says/[/url][/QUOTE] Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] To clarify, no one is not allowed at the sites. The moon is out of anyone's jurisdiction. NASA is just asking that people don't touch what's there. So we can potentially see pictures, maybe videos of NASA junk.

i really want to see high definition pictures/video from the moon's surface. [editline]30th May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] there is

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] That you are suspicious of NASA in the first place makes you look pretty silly

[QUOTE=OvB;36132450]Nope. All fake. The moon is just a hologram projected on the sky by the illuminati to deceive people from the truth that the world is really flat.[/QUOTE] Quite the hologram to be able to see the landing site/flag with a home telescope. :eng101:

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;36132241]it didn't happen anyway it was all staged[/QUOTE] thats why they want people to stay away so that no one knows the truth the truth being that the moon landing never happened and what is there right now is actually a hologram projected from a satellite so future photos of the landing site are not proof WAKE UP SHEEPLE

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] Because it is arguably the most important site in all of human history?

Moon landings are COOL landings [editline]30th May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] We already explored those areas on foot, why go back?

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] Because it's possibly the most delicate monument to human advancement there is - would you want to desecrate such a beautiful thing as the place where man first stepped onto the surface of another world by carelessly trampling all over it?

Everything in space is staged.

All the space is stage and we are merely players.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;36136920]All the space is stage and we are merely players.[/QUOTE] performers and portrayers

Plugged into the Matrix.

Wonder what bullshit John Lear will cook up when we go there this time around.

[QUOTE=God of Ashes;36132808]i really want to see high definition pictures/video from the moon's surface.[/QUOTE] Loads of high quality (better than "HD") photos were taken during Apollo. But HD video would be really cool!

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36132758]Why would they NOT want us going back to the original site when it could prove the moon landings were in fact, not staged? This makes me even more suspicious of NASA and I would love somebody to go visit the site to see if there is even anything there.[/QUOTE] Might have something to do with the fact that if you aimed an observatory telescope at the right spots on the moon you can actually see the different Apollo landing sites where we set foot on it. But wait, the observatories are "in on it" too, and the curators hang a Photoshopped picture over the end of the telescope to fool you when you look through the lens.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;36136920]All the space is stage and we are merely players.[/QUOTE] loading screen when exiting the atmosphere

[QUOTE=OvB;36132450]Nope. All fake. The moon is just a hologram projected on the sky by the illuminati to deceive people from the truth that the world is really flat.[/QUOTE] You made me really sad, because people do believe that.

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36132830]That you are suspicious of NASA in the first place makes you look pretty silly[/QUOTE] While you beliving everything you're told without question makes you pretty gullible [editline]2nd June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Azur;36136837]Because it's possibly the most delicate monument to human advancement there is - would you want to desecrate such a beautiful thing as the place where man first stepped onto the surface of another world by carelessly trampling all over it?[/QUOTE] I really don't think the candidates for this mission are a bunch of idiots. Why not go back to take a look to remind humanity why this is the most important spot in human history?

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36163934]Might have something to do with the fact that if you aimed an observatory telescope at the right spots on the moon you can actually see the different Apollo landing sites where we set foot on it.[/QUOTE]This just made me think of how much more awesome it would be if we were to revisit the moon and film it from Earth.

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36166178]While you beliving everything you're told without question makes you pretty gullible [editline]2nd June 2012[/editline] I really don't think the candidates for this mission are a bunch of idiots. Why not go back to take a look to remind humanity why this is the most important spot in human history?[/QUOTE] Try reading the article for a first. As there's no atmosphere on the moon, the landing site is actually preserved as it was. The footprints, tracks, everything. If people got too close (if you read the article, NASA is fine with 75 meters, which generally, unless you're fucking blind, is enough for you to see the good stuff), they might wind up lunar dust, which takes some time to settle, as the gravity isn't very strong on the moon. The fact that you don't believe all the proof there has been of the moon landing, makes you somewhat dense. Just saying, you can point a laser that way, and the retroreflectors (?) they put up their will reflect the shit. And how the fuck would [I]so many people[/I] be able to conceal a hoax? It makes no fucking sense.

They should livestream it. But they need to be careful to not go on the dark side there might be nazis or aliens hiding as space rocks.

They should send a load of moon landing skeptics to the moon and then let them go to the landing site.

Psssh, everybody knows the moon landings were real. It's where we found the Transformers.