We discussed the return to the Moon with Dutch astronaut André Kuipers and space poet Marjolijn Heemstra at the royal academy of sciences in Amsterdam. Lots of science to be done there, but itis part of a new space race, with lots of political and commercial interests. Hence, we need to reclaim space as a public good and engage more in a public discourse about space. It is not just for nerds, because when the nerds get rich they rule the world & space.
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The moons is important for science, because it was a major factor in shaping the evolution and history of our earth. It gave us the length of day, the seasons, influenced our climate. Moon and Earth co-evolved but ended up very differently. Why and how? Traces of our past are preserved on the moon. (2/4)
André Kuipers reminded us of the challenges of space flight. The US has still a long way to go before it can land people on the moon and China is well positioned already. Many countries are sending probes to the moon. Now China and the US have their own rules and blocks. So, it is again two blocks racing against each other. Hard to predict how it will end. There are space and moon treaties that need to be filled with life.
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Marjolijn Heemstra asked us to think about what the moon needs from us rather than to always think about what we need from the moon. It has been a cultural icon for humans through history and is now commercialised. Fun fact: For billions of years it has given us the time, now we try to define a Moon standard time zone and impose our time on it. The moon has its own time really. (4/4)