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On Monday, the space agency's inspector general released a report blasting NASA's Near Earth Objects program. The program is set up to hunt and catalog comets, asteroids and relatively large fragments of these objects that pass within 28 million miles of Earth. The purpose is to guard against their potential dangers.
In a 44-page report, Inspector General Paul Martin says the NASA program needs to be better managed with a bigger staff. NASA's science mission chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, agrees and promises the problems will be fixed.
I wonder what part of their budget will be transferred in order to fix it.
NASA's science mission chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, agrees and promises the problems will be fixed.
only now saying they need to work on protection haha, retarded
originally posted by: Phage
I wonder what part of their budget will be transferred in order to fix it.
NASA's science mission chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, agrees and promises the problems will be fixed.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Zcustosmorum
only now saying they need to work on protection haha, retarded
The Russian meteor was tiny. It came from the direction of the Sun. How do you suppose it could have been detected?
Actually, the program has been in place since 1998. It has cataloged thousands of objects.
neo.jpl.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: Zcustosmorum
a reply to: eriktheawful
Lets see now, the Chelyabinsk meteor happened over a year ago and they're only now saying they need to work on protection haha, retarded
The purpose is to guard against their potential dangers.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Zcustosmorum
only now saying they need to work on protection haha, retarded
The Russian meteor was tiny. It came from the direction of the Sun. How do you suppose it could have been detected?
Actually, the program has been in place since 1998. It has cataloged thousands of objects.
neo.jpl.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: eriktheawful
Looks like NASA needs to work on it's asteroid protection program:
On Monday, the space agency's inspector general released a report blasting NASA's Near Earth Objects program. The program is set up to hunt and catalog comets, asteroids and relatively large fragments of these objects that pass within 28 million miles of Earth. The purpose is to guard against their potential dangers.
In a 44-page report, Inspector General Paul Martin says the NASA program needs to be better managed with a bigger staff. NASA's science mission chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, agrees and promises the problems will be fixed.
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They were charged with trying to find 90% by the year 2020, and they said that they will not be reaching that goal with how things are currently going.
Personally, I've always thought that THIS should be more of a global priority than say, fighting wars.
Of course that's just my personal opinion.
originally posted by: Zcustosmorum
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Zcustosmorum
only now saying they need to work on protection haha, retarded
The Russian meteor was tiny. It came from the direction of the Sun. How do you suppose it could have been detected?
Actually, the program has been in place since 1998. It has cataloged thousands of objects.
neo.jpl.nasa.gov...
So what's your point exactly? Surely it doesn't matter how big or small it was, the fact is it hit and caused injuries.