Mexico didn’t actually launch the rocket, but is participating in the payload:
“That’s how the Colmena mission began to take shape in 2015, when Mexico presented the project to the company Astrobotic Technology, the creator of Peregrine 1 and which, sponsored by NASA, is in charge of the trip. The company selected UNAM’s idea for the first ever commercial mission to the Moon, along with 19 others from NASA, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The spacecraft is also carrying a time capsule with messages from 80,000 children around the world and the ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and three presidents of the United States: George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy." (Correction: it has a hair sample from Kennedy, not his ashes. The other two, I don’t know what it has.)
M2MM 6 months ago
This is a crazy comic. :D
kaffekup 6 months ago
Mexico didn’t actually launch the rocket, but is participating in the payload:
“That’s how the Colmena mission began to take shape in 2015, when Mexico presented the project to the company Astrobotic Technology, the creator of Peregrine 1 and which, sponsored by NASA, is in charge of the trip. The company selected UNAM’s idea for the first ever commercial mission to the Moon, along with 19 others from NASA, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The spacecraft is also carrying a time capsule with messages from 80,000 children around the world and the ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and three presidents of the United States: George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy." (Correction: it has a hair sample from Kennedy, not his ashes. The other two, I don’t know what it has.)
Dapperdan61 Premium Member 6 months ago
I think Gov. Abbott needs to go to the moon, one way
mistercatworks 6 months ago
Only if there are “blue” states on the Moon. :(
Mary McNeil Premium Member 6 months ago
Wouldn’t he fly them (at taxpayer expense) to New England ?