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To: mowowie; SunkenCiv
We are about to send our fifth? rover to Mars in a few weeks....why not to a moon of Mars or a moon of a outer planet instead?

There is growing interest in returning to Neptune and Uranus (please...behave). This article does a nice job of laying out the pros and cons, chiefly The problem with outer solar system exploration is, you want a spacecraft moving fast enough to reach its intended destination in a decade or so — but too much speed makes slowing down to enter orbit out of the question

I don't believe Congress was granted an enumerated power in the Constitution to create NASA - it's not serving a military function, and the power of pursue pure exploration isn't an Article 1, Section 8 power.

That's said, I love space exploration and think mankind got a lot out of Veejer and New Horizons etc. I want to return to Neptune and Uranus (again..behave children).

18 posted on 07/10/2020 10:11:57 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^)
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To: DoodleBob

We should start a petition to rename Uranus. At this point, I’m willng to even have some BLM politically correct bullshiiite name.


24 posted on 03/06/2021 4:05:06 PM PST by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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