To Infinity and Beyond!

 All that is now

All that is gone

All that's to come

And everything under the sun

Is in tune 

But the sun is eclipsed

By the moon.

-"Eclipse"

Pink Floyd

Men and women from the University of Colorado have been an integral part of NASA since the agency's inception several decades ago.  So, I could not help but smile when I came across a piece just the other day that talked about NASA's decision to fund what sounds like a very cool (to me anyway) CU project. 

CU Boulder has partnered with Lunar Resources, Inc. of Houston, Texas to build an observatory - on the dark side of the moon.  The observatory shall be twenty kilometers by twenty kilometers in size so the plan is to fabricate it on the surface of the moon, using robots and locally-sourced materials.  

I am just a simple social sciences guy whose B.A. in Political Science was the road I traveled on my way to my J.D. so I would not pretend to understand the science behind this undertaking even if someone involved was inclined to take the time to explain it to me.  I am an unabashed NASA nerd however and reading about this undertaking speaks to my inner wannabe astronaut...

...if only they made a space helmet big enough to fit over my jumbo-sized head. 

-AK