NASA Mulls Missions To Neptune and Uranus, Using the Space Launch System

MarkWhittington writes: According to a story in Astronomy Magazine, NASA is contemplating sending flagship sized space probes to the so-called "ice giants" of Uranus and Neptune. These probes would orbit the two outer planets, similar to how Galileo orbited Jupiter and how Cassini currently orbits Saturn. The only time NASA has previously had a close encounter with either of these worlds was when Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986 and then Neptune in 1989. Each of these missions would happen after the Europa Clipper, a flagship-class mission scheduled for the mid-2020s.

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NASA needs more Antarctica defense money

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Spend 2% of the budget on CGI, then the rest goes to keeping us from finding out the boundaries of our existence. You do know that NASA is a military operation, right? NASA never went to the moon, or Mars, or anywhere else. It's all "wow" CGI effects. Winning the space race was one thing; they lied to the Russians in order to keep us from war, which saved lives. But in doing so, they lied to us as well. They need to come clean, and expose the flat earth conspiracy.