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NASA Schedules Robotic Spacecraft Launch
Nathan writes "NASA has finally set the launch date for their first robotic spacecraft, intended to "rendezvous in orbit with other satellites without any human intervention", to the 15th of April. The spacecraft, called "DART" as an acronym for "Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous", cost $110 million dollars and weighs 800 pounds."
The site is already slashdotted....
Just modded down the first 11 posts to 0?
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To maintain the Slashdot tradition of technical excellence in scientific units, such as the Library of Congress, the Olympic sized swimming pool and the telephone booth, I have managed to come up with a single unit which can be used to describe both the cost and the weight of a space faring vessel; and I bestow upon this revolutionary new satellite the honor of being the unit measure:
It is hearby declared to be one Anna Nicole Smith.
KFG
I for one, welcome our new DART overlords.
It must be stopped! God forbid that people should be made to live without oppressive religions and religious elite that will tell you what to eat, with whom to have sex (and when) or how to use your free time.
Wow. You bit so hard I can see the teeth marks.
I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
fud, notfud, yes, no, maybe