Europe’s Successful Moon Probe Mission
by James Buchanan
A recent news article reports “Europe’s first mission… raised the low point of the SMART-1 spacecraft about 2,000 feet by using its positioning thrusters to avoid the almost mile-high rim of a moon crater. The maneuver began late Friday night from the European Space Agency’s mission control in Darmstadt and was completed about three hours later, said Octavio Camino, spacecraft operations chief for the mission. ‘We have got confirmation that the maneuver was successful,’ Camino said… The craft is to end its three-year voyage at 1:41 a.m. EDT Sunday by crashing into a volcanic plain called the Lake of Excellence at 4,475 mph. The impact could increase understanding of how the lunar surface evolved and help test a theory that the moon originated when another astronomical body slammed into the Earth. Even before the $140 million mission ended, ESA was celebrating the main goal — a successful test of the ion engine that it hopes to use for future interplanetary flights, such as the BepiColombo joint mission to Mercury…”
The success of this mission highlights the unique scientific talent that White nations possess. Even though much of the information on rockets has been published for decades, very few nations outside Europe and America have made any significant attempt at rocketry and space exploration. The most advanced Asian race, the Japanese, have attempted sending space probes out to explore the solar system. The Chinese have only recently joined the space race becoming the first non-White nation to send an astronaut into space. Virtually all of China’s modern technology has been copied from the West. During the Clinton administration a wealth of classified information was exported (or secretly sold) to them in exchange for bribes. (more…)