We are going to an asteroid, we are going to an asteroid, la dee dum de dum (skipping along)
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NASA's Greatest Challenge: Sending Astronauts to an Asteroid
Written By COSMOS TV ONLINE on Sunday, July 31, 2011 | 11:16 PM
Read more: http://www.cosmostv.org/
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Don't forget your sun screen, some zinc ointment and a pack of dosimeters.
Now where did I put my check list of things we want to accomplish?
Who has the grappling hook?
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NASA's Next Mission: Send Astronauts To Asteroid
SETH BORENSTEIN 07/23/11 10:49 PM ET 
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Which rock was it that we are heading for?
How long should I tell the post office to hold my mail?
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Step 1 in Astronauts-to-Asteroid Mission: Pick the Right Space Rock
by Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist
Date: 22 March 2011 Time: 07:57 AM ET
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Did you check to see if the rock will still be there when we arrive?
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Fact following fiction? Scientists plan mission to blow up an asteroid 'hurtling towards Earth'
- Plan is similar to the plot of Hollywood film Armageddon
Last updated at 7:58 AM on 17th August 2011
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.
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Maybe we should see just how hard it is to orbit an asteroid and pick up some dust.
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NASA Plans mission to visit asteroid
August 16, 2011 4:33 PM
August 16, 2011: In a few years a NASA spacecraft will seek the building blocks of life in a shovelful of asteroid dirt. The OSIRIS-REx1 spacecraft, targeted for launch in September 2016, will intercept asteroid 1999 RQ36, orbit it for a year, and then reach out a robotic arm to touch its surface.
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Hmmm, I thought that Japan already did that.
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http://news.smh.com.au/
Japan has asteroid dustNovember 16, 2010
Japan has asteroid dustNovember 16, 2010
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Hopefully we will learn more about orbiting an asteroid now that the spacecraft DAWN is in orbit around Vesta.
Took a few years to get there having been launched in 2007.
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http://www.boston.com/news/
NASA spacecraft is orbiting massive asteroid
July 18, 2011
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When we do the next selection of astronauts what age group should we consider?
Maybe the same criteria used for our armed services would do.
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Review Military Entrance Requirements
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If we start early in our selection process maybe we will have some good candidates.
Can your student pass the ASVAB test? (I missed two questions - read the questions carefully)
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THE ASVAB CAREER EXPLORATION PROGRAM
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Well I guess I had better get back to my reading.
MINING THE SKY by John S. Lewis
SPACEFARING THE HUMAN DIMENSION by Albert A. Harrison
and I might take another look at what kind of contract I am signing.
I see a sample at the end of my guide, "WELCOME TO MOON BASE" by Ben Bova
Who knows, by the time we figure out that taking a lot of consumables with us to an asteroid would be just the thing needed for the time it took to set up a launch site from the Moon.
And canceling one over budget heavy lifter rocket is about the same as building another over budget heavy lifter rocket.
Better check my list of interested contractors and how their state voted last election.
Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -
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