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NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission on the brink of cancellation
Houston Space Examiner ^
| June 30, 2015
| Mark R. Whittington
Posted on 06/30/2015 11:55:03 AM PDT by Marcus
NASAs Asteroid Redirect Mission is still gasping along, but at least one space blogger suggests that its cancellation is all but inevitable. In the meantime, Space News just on Tuesday reported that the space agency has decided that the ARM must actually capture a boulder and take it to a retrograde lunar orbit to be considered a success. This metric was actually in doubt, with some NASA managers suggesting that as long as an unmanned probe, propelled by a solar selection propulsion engine, rendezvoused with an asteroid and then returned, even without anything resembling a rock, it would be a success.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: arm; asteroid; catastrophism; nasa; spaceexploration
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posted on
06/30/2015 11:55:03 AM PDT
by
Marcus
To: Marcus
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posted on
06/30/2015 11:55:59 AM PDT
by
Bidimus1
To: Bidimus1
Nobody likes it. They’re doing it because they have been ordered to do it.
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posted on
06/30/2015 11:58:58 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: Marcus
Does this mean the asteroid is going to hit us?
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:02:39 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: WayneS
Yes.. September Hellfire!!!
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:04:31 PM PDT
by
CygnusXI
To: Marcus
But Muslin self esteem is ok.....that’s all that counts
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:06:25 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Marcus
Remember, this is NASA, the Muslim Outreach program, we're talking about...
Space News just on Tuesday reported that the space agency has decided that the ARM must actually capture a boulder and take it to a mosque in Medina to be considered a success.
There, much more tolerant...
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:07:31 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: Marcus
If we can’t re-purpose an ICBM nuke in a pinch, we’ve totally lost our engineering capability.
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:10:25 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Â A system of g84overnment that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyer)
To: Cincinatus
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:30:21 PM PDT
by
Bidimus1
To: Marcus
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission on the brink of cancellation No big "sugar daddies" stepped forward to grease the politician's palms?
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:34:08 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(0bama may not be THE antiCHRIST, but he's definitely ANTI - CHRIST!)
To: Old Sarge
"Remember, this is NASA, the Muslim Outreach program, we're talking about..." The Muslims need a bigger rock to worship, kiss and slobber on.
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posted on
06/30/2015 12:44:20 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: All
Might as well cancel, an asteroid strike might be what’s needed to turn things around.
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posted on
06/30/2015 2:04:25 PM PDT
by
Peter ODonnell
(only 20 months until the Obama nightmare is replaced by the Clinton nightmare)
To: Marcus
This is (was) an Obama directed project, that has to be the dumbest thing NASA ever did. And that's saying a LOT. The purpose of lassoing a rock from a long, long way away, and bring it near earth does what? I have a whole lit of rocks at my place that I'd gladly give to Obama for a whole lot less cost.
I believe Obama had some juvenile fantasy that he could mine precious minerals from the rock. The problem, of course, is that most rocks don't contain precious minerals. All he would be left with is a very very expensive rock.
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posted on
06/30/2015 2:16:24 PM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
To: WayneS
Hope D.C. gets the brunt of it.
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posted on
06/30/2015 3:59:17 PM PDT
by
Politicalkiddo
("In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me" -Psalms 86:7)
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:09:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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