NASA Prepares To Launch an Orion and 3 Cubesats To Deep Space: 3 Years To Go (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: As NASA has noted, the space agency and its contractors are working diligently on the first launch of the heavy-lift Space Launch System. The launch, officially called EM-1, or Exploration Mission 1, will loft an unpiloted version of the Orion spacecraft around the moon. NASASpaceFlight.com also noted that a number of secondary payloads, known as CubeSats, will be along for the ride as well. NASA considered EM-1, scheduled for 2018, a crucial step in its Journey to Mars which will, it is hoped, reach its ultimate destination sometime in the 2030s.

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Re:I thought the secondary payload

[Irate Engineer]

We can't even send a monkey anymore, because that would offend PETA. This country lost its collective balls in the 1960s. We can't cope with any risk or danger anymore. This is why we'll never walk on the moon again. This is also why the terrorists are running our lives these days.

Re:I thought the secondary payload

[jimtheowl]

Jules Vernes for one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But yes, there were people interested in science before; ever since we raised our eyes to the sky wondering about the stars and imagined what it would be like if we could fly like birds.