PROPOSAL: Video, from the moon, orbit, etc | Suggestions and Questions | Forum

Although the manned moon mission is clearly a priority, its hugely difficult, hard to win funding for and a definite long term objective. Whilst reading up on previous missions, it struck me. How do we inspire people to truly take space serious, to get involved, and provide financial backing? Simple.

We show them the cosmos, live. Sure, we can see the stars, but since the first moon landing, we've had the technology to send video back. Surely we can, with today's advancements in audio-visual technology send colour video from the moons surface, or, at least, provide a looking point into space. It'd be a fantastic test of the groups ability, a media boost, and cameras are rapidly replaceable.

The idea, to summarise, would be:

• A live video mission, (running at the same time as the moon mission, one wouldn't stop to allow the other) designed to take less than 3 years to achieve
• The video would preferably be live, or a delayed stream. Classrooms, worldwide would be able to show students the moons surface/space
• Budget would be key here. Low cost -> High media reward.

Is this even possible with (shielded) off the shelf technology? Like it, hate it?

2 years then! If we can inspire a generation to look up for solutions, even we if did nothing else, I'd consider this project a success. I'll await further feedback on this tread, then, perhaps, we can open a forum category for further discussion.