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NASA's Next Mission: Deep Space

Posted by timothy on from the let's-send-them-to-the-oceans-instead dept.

gManZboy writes "NASA's Mars Science Lab and Curiosity rover are the next steps in a long-term plan to travel farther and faster into space. Check out the future spacecrafts and tools that will get them there — including NASA's big bet, a spacecraft that combines the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle with the Space Launch System, designed to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit for the first time since the Apollo 17 Moon mission in 1972. NASA will need 10 years to prepare astronauts to take Orion and SLS for a test flight."

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  1. Happy Holidays from the Golden Girls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank you for being a friend
    Traveled down the road and back again
    Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.

    And if you threw a party
    Invited everyone you ever knew
    You would see the biggest gift would be from me
    And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.

  2. Artistic license by symbolset · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would encourage the moderators of the parent not to look on it as a comment on the fine article, but as a short story in its own right that hopes to be relevant to the article. It's a stone bitch to get a short story into so few words. And for this commentary, mod it as you will.

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