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NASA's Sr. Scientist David Morrison is a breath of sane air in all of this 2012 madness. ?As the person who sees and answers all inquiries to NASA's "Ask an Astrobiologist" he is having a rebuttal published. ?He points out the absurdity in thinking a fictional planet, made up mind you by a scifi writer, will make it's orbit, which apparently only happens every 3,600 years will collide with Earth. ?He also mentioned that the original "collide" date was sometimes in May of 2003? ?Yeah. ?When that didn't happen, they just moved the date up to coincide with the other, more popular dooms day 12/21/2012.

While the Ares I-X was technically a success, there was a bit of damage to both the pad and solid rocket booster. ?According to NASASpaceFlight.com's L2 section the vehicle actually was supposed to launch at a bit of an angle to help it clear the Fixed Service Structure or FSS. ?The known downside of this was a couple of seconds of the massively hot Ares first stage exhaust hitting the FSS. ?While we were speculating about the apparent angle at liftoff during our live coverage, that was in fact planned but did damage pad 39B in the process.

Ok, so we've told you the basics on the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge and if you missed them you can head to our website and search for NGLLC. But, what you haven't heard is the unofficial, soon to be official outcomes. Qualifying Level 2 Masten Flight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcys-t2thk8 Slow Motion Unreasonable Rocket footage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7MRdvDQoC4

The jagged edges of what's commonly referred to as lunar regolith, can create some serious issues when it comes to critical things for living on the moon, like keeping airlock seals tight or not ripping apart the lungs of astronauts. This stuff's not all bad. If we can find a way to mine and collect the regolith we can utilize it to help build our future lunar colonies. We can possibly use it to provide shielding from meteorites, thermal extremes, radiation, both natural and man-made, and the blast effects of rockets landing and taking off. Oh, and the material contains He-3 which could, you know, solve the world's energy crisis.