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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday November 26 2014, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the space-billiards dept.

There's a press release from last week on NASA's website publicising the opportunities to participate in the Asteroid Grand Challenge.

This particular release is an announcement about the 10 projects developed with technical partner SpaceGAMBIT, a "US-government funded open-source space program", and the SpaceGAMBIT website describes the ten grand challenge projects.

NASA is counting on Maker communities to be a part of the solution to asteroid threats. In addition to the 10 new projects with SpaceGAMBIT, NASA is offering a variety of other opportunities for Makers around the country to connect directly with NASA. This includes events like the World Maker Faire and opportunities to solve tough problems through NASA Solve -- a program of challenges, prize competitions, and crowdsourcing activities.

The NASA Asteroid initiative page has additional background.

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  • (Score: 2) by nyder on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:34AM

    by nyder (4525) on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:34AM (#120074)

    I like the Vector Graphics from the arcade Asteroids. Was never good at the game, but something about the them vector graphics arcade games...

    Going to point out that with how NASA is currently, and the state of our spacecrafts, mining from asteroids isn't going to happen any time soon.

    You want to mine asteroids? How about setting up some automated mining robots on the moon? From there we can try to build some sort of space station that we could use to launch mining space craft to try to snag asteroids.

    In other words, why the fuck are we practicing all this stuff on our close neighbor, the moon?

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:48AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:48AM (#120078) Journal

      In other words, why the fuck are we practicing all this stuff on our close neighbor, the moon?

      In other words... what is all this stuff we are practising on the Moon now?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:35AM (#120075)

    you know they've found aliens on the asteroids they land on

    next civilians will be sent up to be fucked in the ass and given some alien disease

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 26 2014, @07:14AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday November 26 2014, @07:14AM (#120176) Journal

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