Fly to the moon

[CosPhi]

Hello

I heard once about Google X Prize http://lunar.xprize.org/ and forgot about it again.

Then I saw this video. Two guy from a Germany based team "Part Time Scientists" http://ptscientists.com/ tell about there project. I'm really impressed about there work so far. 

They talked about it on the 31. Chaos Communication Congress (Chaos Computer Club). Some may interested also in some other videos from other talks.

On the video they also say, they have some free space on there rover for an experiment from somebody else. So if somebody is interested to make something ...  try .... do it 

[bbogita]

Seems cool enough! Now what to put on the rover... perhaps just a huge sensor bank? Maybe a mini rocket that could go into LEO and act as an OSCAR? I didn't check the links so I don't know how much room they have, but an OSCAR would be cool.

[CosPhi]

They said no explosives, better no plants/liquids because they don't wanna contaminate the moon with organic things from earth.

So no fireworks and no "my pee was first pee on the moons surface"  O0

And it's really worth to watch the video 

[SeanB]

They said no explosives, better no plants/liquids because they don't wanna contaminate the moon with organic things from earth.

So no fireworks and no "my pee was first pee on the moons surface"  O0

And it's really worth to watch the video 

Apollo 11 has that sewn up already. the used nappies and such were left behind to reduce mass on the ascent stage. They wanted to bring back rocks, not bags of poop. If you get there you can even pick up some nice Hasselblad cameras left behind.

[bbogita]

They said no explosives, better no plants/liquids because they don't wanna contaminate the moon with organic things from earth.

So no fireworks and no "my pee was first pee on the moons surface"  O0

And it's really worth to watch the video 

Aww.. no explosives. What am i going to do with all my spare C4 now? Do you think solid rocket fuel counts as an explosive if its just burning? Perhaps you could send a small solar powered mining rover to just dig and see what it finds. It could be small and could come back to the surface to recharge its batteries. It would take a while, but I think that would be cool to send along.

[CosPhi]

Apollo 11 has that sewn up already. the used nappies and such were left behind to reduce mass on the ascent stage. They wanted to bring back rocks, not bags of poop. If you get there you can even pick up some nice Hasselblad cameras left behind.

Yes but the poop is still inside the nappies and not really on the surface   

If you like you can do something with organic material, but you have to care it does not contaminate the surface 

A brave guy would build an "capture the flag" bot      

[SeanB]

By now the plastic bags would have disintegrated, spreading the dust of the dried stuff all over the descent stage storage lockers. Heat and temperature cycling would by now have spread it all over the bottom of the lockers, and likely it is on the surface as well from cracks from 40 years of thermal stress and the launch.

[3roomlab]

i like the way they said it ...

after getting milestone prizes and cumulative rewards ... sending the rocket up will make them poor again ($20m a pop?)

O.O ... NASA mDISC DVD ... store data for more than 1000years ?