| ExplodingBlock said: I remember seeing this last year but I am not old enough to sign up Still it would be cool just to be ALIVE during the first manned landing on another planet |
NASA's got your back.
In 2015 NASA is launching a rocket that will retrieve an asteroid and bring it into the Moon's orbit in 2019. If everything goes as planned then Americans will walk on an asteroid in 2021, but NASA's tentative timeline says 'before 2025'. NASA will then send Americans, and apparently a Brit (the Brits better redirect the cash they spend on the ESA to NASA for awhile...) to Mars in the 2030s.
It's pretty amazing what NASA does with a budget consisting of belly button lint. They were granted 0.49% of the federal budget last year. That's the lowest amount of funds they've received from the feds since 1959 -- the second year of NASA's existence. (Yes, it took NASA a mere 11 years to land men on the Moon.)
"On my business card I am a corporate president. In my mind I am a game developer. But in my heart I am a gamer." - Satoru Iwata
