A different asteroid
Nasa reinstates asteroid mission
The US space agency (Nasa) has reversed its decision to scrap the Dawn mission to two large asteroids.
The robotic probe had been cancelled, the agency said, because of technical problems and cost overruns.
But intense lobbying by scientists prompted Nasa management to reappraise the mission and then reinstate it.
Dawn, so named because it will study objects dating from the beginning of the Solar System, is expected to visit the giant space rocks Vesta and Ceres.
By cost overruns did they mean “cut your budget so we can look for WMD?”
Wow, jason, that was oh so witty.
In reality, we wasted so much money on ISS that give us little real scientific value, which cuts into the budgets of projects like Dawn. So now we’re stuck with a useless, incomplete space station while real science like Dawn has to fight for ever nickel.
Also, I think in general, this country has slightly lost it’s will with space exploration. I think NASA needs to better communicate the importance of these missions.
It will be worth it!! Bruce Willis and Ben Afflect are the renegades we need to save Earth!!
Now we need them to reconsider their decision on Hubble.
Superfluous apostrophe!!!
The cabaret Asteroids was a lower production run. That cabinet is a classic. Looks like a missile command next to it also.
I seem to have struck a nerve with Shane. But I for one don’t think the cost of the international space station will in any way compete with the total cost of the war in Iraq.