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General Interest => Open Free for All => Topic started by: DannyB II on April 16, 2010, 06:16:39 PM

Title: Asteroid Riding....
Post by: DannyB II on April 16, 2010, 06:16:39 PM
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This should be something.....

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDefault/science ... 4447cf81a9 (http://hosted2.ap.org/APDefault/science/Article_2010-04-16-US-SCI-NASA-Asteroid/id-083dd26b70d949fba84a744447cf81a9)

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AP President Obama's goal of sending astronauts to an asteroid will be tricky to execute. Then again, it may save the Earth, AP's Seth Borenstein reports. What do you think about the asteroid plan? What would you like to see the space program focus on?
Obama's asteroid goal: tougher, riskier than moon
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now.