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Proposed Next-Generation Space Station

Posted by timothy on from the one-ticket-for-5/6ths-of-the-way-to-the-moon dept.

WallytheWalrus writes "This NewScientist.com article discusses the proposed next generation of telescopes and space stations. The concept presented with little fanfare by the NASA Exploration Team (NEXT) consists of placing a space station about 5/6ths of the way to the moon at one of a handful of local Lagrangian Points. This station would act as a springboard for constructing new telescopic mirrors, maintaining the telescopes that use them, and as a haven for future manned exploration missions. If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...."

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  1. A real NASA project by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    NASA should invent a time machine for the sole purpose of preventing slashdot duplications.

  2. We need a class by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like we need to teach some people how to use that new fangled botton in the upper right corner of the screen (the one labled SEARCH).

  3. Re:Space Cowboys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here's some advice. Don't make Eastwood's day. It's not a good idea. Punk.

  4. Good choice for name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...
    Maybe Apple will buy them too :)

  5. Progress... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
    If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...."

    Well, at least this year the toilets on the space station will be ready and paid for.

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  6. Poor Timothy by MyHair · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can somebody check to see if Timothy has Alzheimer's?

  7. Re:So... by failrate · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy crap, a split second before I posted that bad joke, it had already become redundant!!

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  8. There must be a glitch in the Matrix.... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 3, Funny

    ....Deja Vous!

    1. Re:There must be a glitch in the Matrix.... by Foogle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Vous, huh? Was that a command? Oh well.

  9. Re:lagrangian points by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    The point where the gravitational pulls of the Earth and the Moon cancel each other out is somewhere inside the Earth crust.

    Yep, that's why people on the surface of the earth occationally fall up to the moon, because they are on the moon side of the balancing point.

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  10. Re:budget by GigsVT · · Score: 2, Funny

    4 million a year? My company spent more on that just implementing one database last year, which isnt even all that business critical.

    You work for California don't you?

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  11. Obligatory Gundam Reference by Kaboom13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But the astronauts might get carried away, build cool mechs and attack the earth! We better start developing gundamium now! I hear it can only be made in space however, so we will finally have a use for the ISS...