This is cool. Brings back memories 

The Rocket world was kinda excited. Because it was a fairly large payload going up on one of their March5s. 18,100-lb. (8,200 kilograms)

Which isn't one of the most known payload delivery mechanisms out there.

Meant to bring back 2Kg of samples. Have they not seen Apollo 18 :P

Fake. It was in a hangar in the desert. 😇

Geektastic:

 

Fake. It was in a hangar in the desert. 😇

 

Back away from the YouTube 😀

Geektastic:

 

Fake. It was in a hangar in the desert. 😇

 

But, cunningly, a *different* hangar, so you can't see the Apollo lander and flag.

So do we :) .. sort of ..

"'Presented to the People of New Zealand by Richard Nixon President of the United States of America'. 'This flag of your nation was carried to the Moon and back by Apollo 11, and this fragment of the Moon's surface was brought to Earth by the crew of that first manned lunar landing'."

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/64368

Getting the payload back is probably the more technically leg of the mission.... hope it all goes well.....

wellygary:

 

So do we :) .. sort of ..

 

I am one of the few* people to have touched the moon's surface**. It was gritty, not unlike Mt Arthur limestone.

* A few million out of the 107 billion people that ever lived is still "few".

** Courtesy of NASA at the Cape, a sliver of it brought back by project Apollo. One of the most valuable rocks on Earth.

wellygary:

 

So do we :) .. sort of ..

 

"'Presented to the People of New Zealand by Richard Nixon President of the United States of America'. 'This flag of your nation was carried to the Moon and back by Apollo 11, and this fragment of the Moon's surface was brought to Earth by the crew of that first manned lunar landing'."

 

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/64368

 

 

 

Getting the payload back is probably the more technically leg of the mission.... hope it all goes well.....

 

 

 

I am sure the team will get stoned if it arrives back safely 

MikeB4:

 

I am sure the team will get stoned if it arrives back safely 

 

Edited to make it funnier:

There will be dad jokes like this

你摇滚！不，你摇滚！

Why?

I guess its a bucket list item for China's leadership

tdgeek:

 

Why?

 

I guess its a bucket list item for China's leadership

 

And to take over the world mhwhahahahahahaha

JaseNZ:

 

 

 

And to take over the world mhwhahahahahahaha

 

Nah that Pinky and The Brain

JaseNZ:

 

And to take over the world mhwhahahahahahaha

 

Thats clearly the long term plan.

MadEngineer: And so begins the race to harvest asteroids

Https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/8093/the-colossal-untapped-value-of-asteroids/

 

That will take some impressive tractors