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Innovative new arguments for Constellation

Most of the arguments for NASA’s Constellation program, specifically Ares 1 and Orion, have fallen along familiar lines: safety, performance, jobs, national prestige, and the like. Planetary defense and climate control? Not so much. But that’s exactly what NBC’s Jay Barbree suggested in a brief report yesterday about the meeting between Obama and Bolden:

If the two executives decide to stay NASA’s current course, the agency will have rockets and spaceships capable of stopping a future asteroid threat to millions, flying to and beyond the moon and, partnered with Russia and China, place in low orbit solar flux reflectors for climate control.

5 comments to Innovative new arguments for Constellation

  • Robert G. Oler

    Jay is to old to wear a cheerleader outfit, but he does it well anyway.

    Robert G. Oler

  • R.U. Kidding

    Isn’t it just cheaper to buy a tinfoil hat?

  • I’m not quite sure it’s 100% tin-foil hat material, but neither justification should be thought of as a centerpiece. At least not if anyone wants to take them seriously.

  • CharlesTheSpaceGuy

    The Constellation program is developing asteroid deflecting spaceships? Jay Barbree must have some very creative writers.

  • Loki

    “solar flux reflectors for climate control.”

    Here I thought we were supposed to be all about “green” solar energy. Now we’re talking about reflecting that energy back into space instead? Seems awfully wasteful. If we could launch those big solar reflectors it seems logical to conclude we could launch large solar power satellites, and actually use that solar energy instead of wasting it. Oh well.

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