NASA plans to land manned craft on 50,000 mph asteroid to learn how to destroy "PLANET KILLER" asteroid!!

This asteroid is Nibiru... lol

Funny how the title of being an astronaut make more sense now that they are thinking of landing men on an asteroid..

Without cargo ships and Soyuz rockets ISS would be already abandoned last year. That you know very well, so do not try to confuse people who don't know nothing about the subject!

Also, let me remind you and others who did launch the first module of ISS

Nov 20, 1998

The first component of the $60 billion International Space Station (ISS) was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan a few hours ago after a delay of almost a year. The $200 m Zarya cargo module forms the initial propulsion system and command base for the new space station.

The 24 ton Zarya (meaning "daybreak") module is based on the long experience the Russian Space Agency has had with the Mir space station. Unlike the US space station Skylab, which was until Mir the largest object in orbit, the module can stay in space for 430 days without re-fuelling.

After launch Zarya will move into a circular orbit to make it easier for the space shuttle Endeavour to rendezvous with it on 3 December. Astronauts will then dock the US-built module 'Unity' with Zarya. The new 500 ton station is to be built over the next six years by 44 flights, making it the largest and most complex manmade object in space.

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Awesome, they need to know how to knock one of those motherfuckers out of the air. Also a good start on figuring out how to mine them.

I'm well aware of that. But NASA has proven the ability to supply the station, the decision to cancel the shuttle without an alternative ready to come online was out of their hands.

You don't need to. Other than Zarya, Zvezda, Poisk, and Pirs (the latter two being modified Progress modules that are essentially permanently docked), the modules were launched by who? Even Atlantis was used to complete the connections between Zarya and Zvezda.

You guy's have fun, my other thread is far more important.

Nobody said that US didn\'t do the great job with shuttles. You might be embarssed that shuttles are retired (due to extremely high costs) but the point is - that there are people who still live and work TODAY on ISS, and without Russians who still have the good old technology that would be NO POSSIBLE.

Is that so hard to accept?

This, you have to applaud astromut for defending his stance and believing it no matter how hated he is for it. Good on you AF1 for not giving it back too, we have to respect opinions in today's world. Divide and Conquer is the name of the game, once the TPTB are brought down and all the files are available to the public we can determine who was right. I myself have some serious questions, and I think the moon landing was not a hoax necessarily. It is a very grey area.

Not at all, and don't get me wrong I fully understand that. But NASA's current state of affairs should not be confused with what they're actually capable of. We're capable of doing lots of things we're not currently doing. And the fact that we're not doing them at the moment does disappoint me.

" We're capable of doing lots of things we're not currently doing. And the fact that we're not doing "

10 or 15 years from now NASA will not have a program that will get out of low earth orbit.

Astromut will be gone. Hopefully on rehab somewhere.

Indeed, have a good day. :)