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| Subject: AnCap Good News: Private Telescope to Hunt for Killer Asteroids Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:19 am | |
| Two former NASA astronauts have given themselves a new mission: To seek out potentially dangerous asteroids so humanity can have enough time to do something about it.
Apollo moon pilot Rusty Schweickart and Shuttle veteran Ed Lu are spearheading a project to build, launch and fly an infrared space telescope devoted to tracking near-Earth asteroids. They hope to launch the observatory, called Sentinel, in 2017.
http://news.discovery.com/space/privately-owned-telescope-to-hunt-for-killer-asteroids-120629.html |
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