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Project M was a proposed NASA project headed by Stephen J. Altemus, to send a Robonaut to the Moon.
 
Project M was a proposed NASA project headed by Stephen J. Altemus, to send a Robonaut to the Moon.
  
And that is terrible to hear in the image text that we haven't been more than an inch and a half half an inch from the surface of the Earth if it were the size of a basketball. Personally, I'm putting most of my hope in Space X. With most of the NASA layoffs, a lot of the people went over to Space X.  (A private company dedicated to space travel founded by former eBay founder Elon Musk.) I think they (or another private company) are the only hope of getting back into space and permanently this time.
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And that is terrible to hear in the image text that we haven't been more than half an inch from the surface of the Earth if it were the size of a basketball. Personally, I'm putting most of my hope in Space X. With most of the NASA layoffs, a lot of the people went over to Space X.  (A private company dedicated to space travel founded by former eBay founder Elon Musk.) I think they (or another private company) are the only hope of getting back into space and permanently this time.
  
 
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Revision as of 17:31, 1 August 2012

This is comic number 1084. It was posted on June 27, 2012.

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Image text: Ok, so Spirit and Opportunity are pretty awesome. And Kepler. And New Horizons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. You have probably seen him on many different TV shows from anything on the Discovery Channel to The Big Bang Theory.

And I 100% like Megan's argument about NASA faking the moon landing better. It is almost perfect. And of course Cueball responds with a pun on the word "burn". Burn can mean a particularly effective joke that insults another person. Additionally, burn in space travel means when the space ship burns fuel for propulsion. In this case, the "burn" was so effective it pushed the spaceship out of orbit (which usually takes a very large amount of burning - depending on the gravity of the planet or moon, but you get the idea.).

NASA's Spirit and Opportunity are Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) on an ongoing robotic space mission exploring the planet Mars.

NASA's Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.

NASA's New Horizons is a robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to flyby and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra and S/2011 P 1, with an estimated arrival date at the Pluto-Charon system of July 14, 2015.

NASA's Cassini–Huygens is a flagship-class NASA-ESA-ASI spacecraft sent to the Saturn system. It has studied the planet and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004, also observing Jupiter, the Heliosphere, and testing the theory of relativity.

NASA's Curiosity is a Mars rover launched on November 26, 2011. Currently en route to the planet, it is scheduled to land in Gale Crater at about 05:31 UTC on August 6, 2012. The rover's objectives include searching for past or present life, studying the Martian climate, studying Martian geology, and collecting data for a future manned mission to Mars.

NASA's TiME or Titan Mare Explorer is a proposed spacecraft lander that, if launched, would probe Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, and would perform the first exploration of an extraterrestrial sea.

Project M was a proposed NASA project headed by Stephen J. Altemus, to send a Robonaut to the Moon.

And that is terrible to hear in the image text that we haven't been more than half an inch from the surface of the Earth if it were the size of a basketball. Personally, I'm putting most of my hope in Space X. With most of the NASA layoffs, a lot of the people went over to Space X. (A private company dedicated to space travel founded by former eBay founder Elon Musk.) I think they (or another private company) are the only hope of getting back into space and permanently this time.