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NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission May Not Actually Redirect an Asteroid
MarkWhittington writes: When President Obama first proposed visiting an asteroid in his 2010 speech at the Kennedy Space Center, many assumed that the mission would be a deep space mission to an Earth-approaching asteroid in its "native orbit" in voyage taking weeks. Then, NASA dropped the idea in 2013 favor of the Asteroid Redirect Mission in which a tiny asteroid would be diverted to lunar orbit to be visited by astronauts. Now, according to a Thursday story in Space News, the ARM might take place without redirecting an asteroid.
And we now have the best reason ever to go back to the moon. We must build an Olympic-size swimming pool on the moon!
Also, He3 is a very stupid reason to go to the moon. It requires level 2 nuclear fusion, and we haven't reached level 1 yet. lrn2civ noob
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