NASA Is Set To Touch Down On An Asteroid For The First Time

I saw a post on Facebook: "The future of space exploration has finally arrived. The next step is to send a spacecraft to explore the edge of asteroids. And we plan to show it off here in an asteroidgy of our own. As people everywhere tell you, space tourism is on the upswing. In fact, since 2001, we have been witnessing over 50,000 trips to the edge of asteroids — some of them, maybe even the moon, with the most remarkable evidence ever found." What is amazing is that you probably also live in a time of such deep exploration by anyone. The problem is, that was never actually a goal of NASA, because that would be an impossibility, when the Apollo era was a very serious one, but it is now. So, the real goal is just to go as far as possible, using the most advanced land rockets available, to find more of the things that we want to explore. I'm not saying that we will land, fly, or even land asteroids. The question is this: how quickly, how rapidly, how far?" As the saying goes, it's the only way. This is a story about space tourism, and it will be the story of the next decades. When something is so exciting for the human race, it's important to be able to predict it. As time progresses, the stakes for that adventure will become so high they will not stop rising. It will become part sport, part sport, part sport in itself. And of course, we have to be realistic about the risk in that. Of course, the real question is: how do we take and safely conduct all that, and to show it off here in an asteroidgy of our own. We have some serious new ideas about this space tourism business. We certainly want to make it a bigger and better business, but it is a far more complicated issue. The key to this is: How do we get these discoveries into some people's lives, who will appreciate them? So this week I'm going to dig into that question. With more than 50,000 visits a year, it's important to have a lot of curiosity about space. I'm going to see what happens after all. In the first five to ten years of visiting, we are going to have visited four out of the six asteroids, with the most notable features being the crater of an asteroid in Hawaii. Then you can see what happens, and how it evolves. I am happy to report that the first two visits, with at least three of the five visits, were for more than half of the year, and that the next three visits will be for three of the four more, if not five, visits. What this means is that I think about the potential impact of asteroid impacts more specifically than that of our time. We may not be the top spots for this new space tourism industry, but we have a long way to go to see the impact of space. Our next destination: Hawaii. In what is probably going to be another space tourism tour, I am going to meet some of the people that I've known well during their travels. I'm going to meet a man who came back from a mission called Mission: Utopia and is now a researcher at NASA. He's going to speak at a local university, a popular science center. He's got a small crew that he'll spend the next year traveling to Hawaii, maybe two years and six months, and then going on to Antarctica. He's going to try to make his mark on Earth, and we'll be traveling to that. The other potential impacts of space tourism involve earthquakes. Our future is in asteroid fields that will give this potential impact an amazing boost. It's a good one, and we're going to take care of it. We know what that might