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1 posted on 09/08/2016 11:59:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Correct title is: “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ready for Thursday launch to NC-named asteroid”


2 posted on 09/08/2016 12:00:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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They are going to wake it up!


3 posted on 09/08/2016 12:02:58 PM PDT by DannyTN
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It was built here, at Lockheed Martin.


5 posted on 09/08/2016 12:26:13 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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This will set off a space race to use robots to attach ion engines to asteroids in order to steer them toward military targets on Earth.


6 posted on 09/08/2016 12:29:38 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: BenLurkin

At the end of the day, NASA is just another bloated government alphabet agency that has long outlived its charter and purpose. Intercepting asteroids is the new $2000 toilet seat.


7 posted on 09/08/2016 12:29:44 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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They stuff this spacecraft full of Muslims?


9 posted on 09/08/2016 12:33:15 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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10 posted on 09/08/2016 12:40:25 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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