NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget

MarkWhittington writes "Included in President Obama's 2014 budget request will be a $100 million line item for NASA for a mission to capture and bring an asteroid to a high orbit around the moon where it will be explored by astronauts. Whether the $2.6 billion mission is a replacement or a supplement to the president's planned human mission to an asteroid is unclear. The proposal was first developed by the Keck Institite in April, 2012 and has achieved new impetus due to the meteor incident over Russia and new fears of killer asteroids."

Comments

Sequester Fodder

[kenh]

This is a program designed to be cut, to show that this administration is being 'fiscally responsible'... I expect many such 'pie-in-the-sky' projects to be proposed, only to be cut at the altar of fiscal responsibility... And blame the minority party for the cut as well.

Hey, if they can count as savings the money they don't spend on wars that have ended, why not propose wild plans to pump up the savings?

Do you know how much (in inflation-adjusted dollars) we have saved since we stopped fighting the Second World War these last 65+ years?!?!?!

Re:Priorities

[Concerned Onlooker]

I think Obama has a ways to go to catch up to George Bush on vacation time.

Re:Let Me Get This Straight Dept.

[HornWumpus]

L4/L5 is valuable real estate. First nation to park a base there owns it.

We should send two.