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Japan and Russia Reveal Their Plans For Permanent Moon Bases
Colonizing the moon was once upon a time laughed at as a joke, but as time goes on it becomes more and more of a reality.
Japan and Russia revealed plans to establish bases on our planet’s satellite.
“We’re not talking about repeating what mankind achieved 40 years ago,” said Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos. “We’re talking about establishing permanent bases.” And while he gave no timeframe for it, we imagine it would be some time after 2030, which is Roscosmos’s target date for a manned moon landing. Japanese space agency JAXA has similar plans, and who knows — if the first batch of lunar inhabitants are lucky enough, the agency may decide to bring Domino’s along for the ride.
NASA Loses Laptop With Space Station Controls On It
NASA may have lost its funding, fans and relevance to America’s political spirit, but it hasn’t lost it’s ability to disappoint. We aren’t on Mars, on Pandora, and it looks like this space station may soon not be in orbit, if this laptop isn’t handled correctly.
The laptop, which was not encrypted, was among dozens of mobile devices lost or stolen in recent years that contained sensitive information, the space agency’s inspector general told Congress today in testimony highlighting NASA’s security challenges.
“The March 2011 theft of an unencrypted NASA notebook computer resulted in the loss of the algorithms used to command and control the International Space Station,” NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin said in written testimony (PDF). Another laptop contained sensitive information on the NASA’s Constellation and Orion programs, as well as Social Security numbers, he said.
