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Nasa's mission orders come in: put astronauts on an asteroid within 15 years
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| 7/25/11
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 07/25/2011 4:26:50 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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>>They have presidential orders to to send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.<<
Isn't NASA now to be used for "Muslim Outreach"? I wasn't aware there were Muslims living on asteroids.
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I guess someone in the Obama group liked the earth-saving asteroid movie “Armageddon.” I can’t think of any other reason for this.
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Put Obama on an asteroid within 15 days.
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
"I wasn't aware there were Muslims living on asteroids."Me either, I thought they were mostly found around hemmoroids.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:29:51 PM PDT
by
hometoroost
(Per Oceander: The only guarantees in life are death, taxes, and stupidity.)
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Too big of a step. We should look at a longer stay on the moon first. Kinda pick up where we left off.
On the other hand, the time required in space to visit an asteroid might actually spur some innovation in shielding technology.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:31:08 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
harpoon ——> tractor beam.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:32:20 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
They have presidential orders to to send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years. When Kennedy issued the challenge of the moon, he made sure to specify sending a man to the moon "and return him safely to Earth".
Don't see any such language here.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:32:54 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
such as Vega or Eros?
We’re hitching rides on Russian rockets.... are going to pay the Russkies to take us there?
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:33:49 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: hometoroost
Proof that obama has rocks in his head. I personnaly think that putting astronauts in a capsule the size of Orion for a long duration trip would be a mental suicide mission.
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
And his space rock.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:35:29 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Heading for a landing on Niburu?
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:36:23 PM PDT
by
mark3681
To: Errant
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:36:32 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:36:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: cripplecreek
If you’re going out to the asteroid belt, might as well go all the way to Mars. Make it a two-fer. Drop the Muzzie astronauts on the asteroid and tell them we’ll pick them up on the way back.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:36:55 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Its a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add. - Sarah Palin)
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Why is an asteroid better than Mars? Wouldn’t Mars be easier?
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:37:47 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(Prayer. It's freedom of speech.)
To: Errant
The man who's going to take us there.
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:38:49 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
This is madness. There is nothing an astronaut can do to an asteroid that a robot cannot do better.
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Hey! This is really clever.
The mass of the largest asteroid is about 1/300 the mass of the Moon. I'm too lazy to calculate the escape velocity from Vesta, but my guess is that an uncovered sneeze could send and astronaut hurtling off into random areas of the solar system.
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:39:33 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
This is madness. There is nothing an astronaut can do to an asteroid that a robot cannot do better.
To: cripplecreek
I agree. A permanent human base on the moon would, if done correctly, make enough money to more than support its continued operation. Satellite launch station Luna. ;)
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posted on
07/25/2011 4:40:53 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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