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Eva Angelini

NASA's New Asteroid Mission Could Save the Planet - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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  • President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025.
  • But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its shoulders.
  • And there's another compelling reason for touching an asteroid: Saving the planet.
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  • Scientists estimate there are about 100,000 asteroids and comets near Earth, but only about 20,000 are expected to pose any risk of impact.
  • 1,000 of them flying in orbits that could potentially threaten the Earth in the future, NASA scientists have said.
  • "By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space," Obama said. "We'll start we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history."
  • "Robots have never discovered things," Grunsfeld said. "People have discovered things, using robots."
Eva Angelini

First moonwalker blasts Obama's space plan - Space- msnbc.com - 0 views

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  • The first man to walk on the moon blasted President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel NASA’s back-to-the-moon program on Tuesday, saying that the move is “devastating” to America’s space effort.
  • The most controversial part of the president's policy is the cancellation of the Constellation program, which was aimed at developing a new generation of Ares rockets and Orion spacecraft to send astronauts into Earth orbit and beyond.
  • Obama administration determined that the Constellation program could not fulfill NASA's goals on the required timetable.
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  • The letter notes that the U.S. space effort will be dependent for years to come on the Russians for transport to the International Space Station, at a cost of more than $50 million per seat.
  • Armstrong and his colleagues complained that the cancellation would amount to wasting the roughly $10 billion that has been allocated to Constellation over the past five years.
  • "America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space," the astronauts said. "If it does, we should institute a program which will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal.
  • The fact that Armstrong, arguably the world's most famous living astronaut, has now spoken out against NASA's change of plans is likely to focus additional attention on the debate over America's future in space.
  • On the other side of the debate, the most outspoken Apollo-era advocate of NASA's new policy is the man who was Armstrong's co-pilot for the first moon landing: Buzz Aldrin.
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      Eva Angelini on 15 Apr 10
       
      i find this interesting how the first two men on the moon, co-pilots, respond with such dichotomy when considering this topic.
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FOXNews.com - Lost in Space - 0 views

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  • When America's space shuttle program ends in September, the U.S. will be completely dependent on Russian rockets for launching men and women into space -- and bringing them back. But what will happen to America's astronauts if relations between the U.S. and Russia sour?
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      betsaida_miranda on 11 Apr 10
       
      The U.S. will end it's space shuttle program in September.
Eva Angelini

Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth - Space- msnbc.com - 2 views

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  • "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,"
  • The 68-year-old scientist said a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth might well be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
  • Hawking said an attack by interstellar predators is just one of the dismaying possibilities in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Another possibility is that intelligence itself might be inimical to life. Hawking pointed out that humanity has put itself on the edge of its own destruction by creating nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.
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