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New Space Race? US Eyes Asteroids as Other Nations Shoot for the Moon

Space

In 1962 that President John F. Kennedy delivered the now-famous line in a speech at Rice University in Texas: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Seven years later, the first humans walked on the lunar surface.

SilentNegotiator3563d ago

Pfft, the moon. Been there, done that.

America.

UltraNova3563d ago

Yeah why would anyone else want to go there right? I mean the US did it first so whats the point? Just like you posting first, whats the point of being second to comment Pfft...

SilentNegotiator3562d ago

Exactly. Why'd you even bother posting?

Crazay3563d ago

I think that with todays technology, we can get a much clearer view of what an extra terrestrial planet looks like. Personally I'd like to see them go back to the moon.

SilentNegotiator3562d ago

Too bad we don't have technology for detecting obvious jokes.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing

The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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NASA radar images show stadium-sized asteroid tumbling by Earth during flyby

The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).

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Radar images reveal damage on Europe's doomed ERS-2 satellite during final orbits

Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.