NASA’s asteroid mission takes a beating
NASA can’t afford to send humans to Mars. With its current plans to build a large rocket, the Space Launch System, NASA can’t even afford to go back to the moon. What NASA can afford to do, in about a...
View ArticleHow NASA got stuck with an uninspiring asteroid mission
NASA outlined some of the details of its Asteroid Redirect Mission on Wednesday afternoon. The space agency will launch a robotic spacecraft in 2020 to visit an asteroid far away from Earth, likely...
View ArticleAdvisors to NASA: Dump the asteroid mission and go to Mars orbit instead
FRIDAY 11 a.m. UPDATE: At the conclusion of its meeting the NASA Advisory Council adopted a “finding” that the asteroid redirect mission should be dropped in favor of demonstrating solar electric...
View ArticleShould NASA’s next mission be to an asteroid or a Martian moon?
On Friday NASA’s Advisory Council formally suggested that the space agency cancel its Asteroid Redirect Mission and replace it with a mission to the orbit of Mars. This, it should be noted, is an...
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