Could...not...resist...posting!!!
No, this is NOT from The Onion...but it may be the best ClickBait title of all time! It's an article from BGR.com (Boy Genius Report =& gt; BGR). Here is the direct link to the article:
NASA wants to probe Uranus in search of gas
An excellent comment discussion on Yahoo is
here.
Oh, and here's a quote from the article:
The planets that lie further away from the Sun don’t get nearly as much attention, but they may soon, as NASA is currently spitballing some missions that will give us a better look at Uranus than we’ve ever gotten. |
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My understanding is that scientists are now hesitant in regard to sending astronauts out for long periods of time, greater than a year, because of the effects of weightlessness and radiation.
It's looking more and more like a manned Mars mission is technologically unfeasible for the foreseeable future.
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to the planets are fine. No manned missions to Mars.
My understanding is that scientists are now hesitant in regard to sending astronauts out for long periods of time, greater than a year, because of the effects of weightlessness and radiation.
It's looking more and more like a manned Mars mission is technologically unfeasible for the foreseeable future.