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NASA Plans to Blow up Comet - Maybe some Fireworks

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Yeah...i really don't like the sound of this. The idea seems to be "Let's shoot a comet and see what happens"...i think NASA is bored and we're all now in danger.
 
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Originally posted by: Gibsons
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: Amol
Yeah, because NASA should stop doing all its space stuff and go into marketing its products into the consumer market. :roll:
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Space stuff that does what? You're right that NASA did inspire quite a few inventions back in the 1970's, but they've been getting more funding and have been doing less work. SpaceShipOne was just as cool as almost anything NASA's ever done and cost something like $30,000,000.
Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
Can they do that even if they wanted to?
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Compete against businesses? Probably not, which is why they're so inefficient.
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Hubble, Viking, Voyager, Mars Rover, lots and lots of other things Nasa's done >>> SpaceShipOne.
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Space Ship One is definatly not as cool as stuff NASA has done. It got a man up to very low space (not orbital) for minute or two, and came back. NASA has put men on the moon. The only time in human history that any living organism from earth has set foot on another floating ball of rock, the farthest any being on earth has ever traveled. If they build a cheap reliable moon transport that'll be cooler than anything NASA has done, brushing the lower edges of space, even with a low budget, itsn't as cool as NASA's accomplishments.
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I met Brian Binnie...the guy who flew the X-prize winning Space Ship One (SSO)flight last Sept/Oct and he was saying just took a different look at how to get into low earth orbit. He said that nearly the whole budget for SSO program would have been what NASA would spend on the access door on the Space Shuttle. But SSO just made it into Low Earth Orbit....lower than where the Shuttle flies to avoid re-entry problems...and they flew by the seat of their pants...like the old days of aeronautical testing...NASA would have never gotten away with half of what Scaled Composites did, for NASA is subject to extreme amounts of government regulations!
NASA would have never gotten off the ground if it wasnt for JFK's mandate in 1961. The Russians would then had no competition in reaching the moon...just themselves and their giant 50 engine first-stage rocket.....
 
it's happening tomorrow...:thumbsup:

is bruce willis ready?...in case NASA fubars this mission; and comet hurls towards Earth? 😛
 
Originally posted by: Jawo
But SSO just made it into Low Earth Orbit....lower than where the Shuttle flies to avoid re-entry problems...and they flew by the seat of their pants...like the old days of aeronautical testing...NASA would
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SSO didn't make it to Low Earth Orbit. They didn't get anywhere close.
 
My only complaint about the Apollo spinoff page is this:
Freeze-dried food solved the problem of what to feed an astronaut on the long-duration Apollo missions.
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Freeze Drying was developed by HR Axlerod to process tubifex worms to feed aquarium fish. Long before even Sputnik.
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Space stuff that does what? You're right that NASA did inspire quite a few inventions back in the 1970's, but they've been getting more funding and have been doing less work. SpaceShipOne was just as cool as almost anything NASA's ever done and cost something like $30,000,000.
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Spaceship One wasn't a NASA project. It's a private venture, as were most X-Prize participants i believe.

Check my sig for the Deep Impact website & info.
 
I can't help but think this is one of those things that a bunch a NASA boys thought up while hammer down beers at the bar some night after work.

NASA Nerd 1: "You know what would rock?
NASA Nerd 2: "Using some of our satellites to peep at nude beaches off the coast of Spain?
NASA Nerd 1: "No no no...we do that already...didn't you see it on the company intranet?
NASA Nerd 1: "Anyway....I think it would rule if we took a 100 million dollar probe....AND SLAMMED IT INTO A FREAKING COMET!
NASA Nerd 2: "Brilliant!" "And do it on the 4th of July!"
NASA Nerd 1: "NASA....fsck yeah!. I love my job!"
NASA Nerd 2: "Hey waitresh...another round of Tequilla slammers!"
NASA Nerd 2: "Slammers...get it hehehehiccup!"
 
so what time is that in central daylight time? is there a countdown or something on the NASA site?
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
so what time is that in central daylight time? is there a countdown or something on the NASA site?
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I think it hits about 1:52am EDT (12:52am for you)
 
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
I searched Nasa and comet. Nothing came up. Let me know if this is a repost.

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Not all dazzling fireworks displays will be on Earth this Independence Day. NASA hopes to shoot off its own celestial sparks in an audacious mission that will blast a stadium-sized hole in a comet half the size of Manhattan. It would give astronomers their first peek at the inside of one of these heavenly bodies.

If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 ? about 80 million miles away from Earth at the time of impact.

"It's a bullet trying to hit a second bullet with a third bullet in the right place at the right time," said Rick Grammier, project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Scientists hope the July 4 collision will gouge a crater in the comet's surface large enough to reveal its pristine core and perhaps yield cosmic clues to the origin of the solar system.

NASA's fleet of space-based observatories ? including the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra telescopes ? along with an army of ground-based telescopes around the world are expected to record the impact and resulting crater.

The big question is: What kind of fireworks can sky-gazers expect to see from Earth?

Scientists do not know yet. But if the probe hits the bull's-eye, the impact could temporarily light up the comet as much as 40 times brighter than normal, possibly making it visible to the naked eye in parts of the Western Hemisphere.

"We're getting closer by the minute," Andrew Dantzler, the director of NASA's solar system division, said earlier this month. "I'm looking forward to a great encounter on the Fourth of July.".
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Would be funny if it shot straight past the comet, slingshotted round the galaxy then came all the way back home only to land in central America.

Now that I would pay to see.
 
Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
I searched Nasa and comet. Nothing came up. Let me know if this is a repost.

Yahoo Link

Not all dazzling fireworks displays will be on Earth this Independence Day. NASA hopes to shoot off its own celestial sparks in an audacious mission that will blast a stadium-sized hole in a comet half the size of Manhattan. It would give astronomers their first peek at the inside of one of these heavenly bodies.

If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 ? about 80 million miles away from Earth at the time of impact.

"It's a bullet trying to hit a second bullet with a third bullet in the right place at the right time," said Rick Grammier, project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Scientists hope the July 4 collision will gouge a crater in the comet's surface large enough to reveal its pristine core and perhaps yield cosmic clues to the origin of the solar system.

NASA's fleet of space-based observatories ? including the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra telescopes ? along with an army of ground-based telescopes around the world are expected to record the impact and resulting crater.

The big question is: What kind of fireworks can sky-gazers expect to see from Earth?

Scientists do not know yet. But if the probe hits the bull's-eye, the impact could temporarily light up the comet as much as 40 times brighter than normal, possibly making it visible to the naked eye in parts of the Western Hemisphere.

"We're getting closer by the minute," Andrew Dantzler, the director of NASA's solar system division, said earlier this month. "I'm looking forward to a great encounter on the Fourth of July.".
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Would be funny if it shot straight past the comet, slingshotted round the galaxy then came all the way back home only to land in central America.

Now that I would pay to see.
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It's all fun and games until someone loses a small central american province.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
I searched Nasa and comet. Nothing came up. Let me know if this is a repost.

Yahoo Link

Not all dazzling fireworks displays will be on Earth this Independence Day. NASA hopes to shoot off its own celestial sparks in an audacious mission that will blast a stadium-sized hole in a comet half the size of Manhattan. It would give astronomers their first peek at the inside of one of these heavenly bodies.

If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 ? about 80 million miles away from Earth at the time of impact.

"It's a bullet trying to hit a second bullet with a third bullet in the right place at the right time," said Rick Grammier, project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Scientists hope the July 4 collision will gouge a crater in the comet's surface large enough to reveal its pristine core and perhaps yield cosmic clues to the origin of the solar system.

NASA's fleet of space-based observatories ? including the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra telescopes ? along with an army of ground-based telescopes around the world are expected to record the impact and resulting crater.

The big question is: What kind of fireworks can sky-gazers expect to see from Earth?

Scientists do not know yet. But if the probe hits the bull's-eye, the impact could temporarily light up the comet as much as 40 times brighter than normal, possibly making it visible to the naked eye in parts of the Western Hemisphere.

"We're getting closer by the minute," Andrew Dantzler, the director of NASA's solar system division, said earlier this month. "I'm looking forward to a great encounter on the Fourth of July.".
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Would be funny if it shot straight past the comet, slingshotted round the galaxy then came all the way back home only to land in central America.

Now that I would pay to see.
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It's all fun and games until someone loses a small central american province.
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I'm sure you won't miss Texas.
 
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