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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. That bitch talked me into this by symbolset · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goddamn, but she gave good head. "It's not really you" she said. "It's a recording of you."

    Well Fuck You bitch. You're not out here between the stars freezing your virtual ass off. Would have killed mission control to grant my virtual self a virtual beej now and then?

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  2. Re:Why return mission? by Spy+Handler · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody is forcing you or anyone else to go to Mars to die, so calm down already and take your Prozac or medicinal marjuana or whatever it is you smoke.

    To assume that they would willfully head off to settle a land that is impossible to live in just states your ignorance.

    This is the stupidest thing I've seen all day. There are lots of people who would JUMP at the chance to go on a one-way trip to Mars. Give their right arm for it. In fact they'd have so many volunteers they couldn't handle it.