First Human Landing On An Asteroid by 2073, Say Scientists

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First Human Landing On An Asteroid by 2073, Say Scientists

People alive today could witness astronauts visiting the asteroid belt within 50 years.
The Physics arXiv Blog iconThe Physics arXiv BlogBy The Physics arXiv BlogMay 19, 2022 12:50 PM
 
 
The first human space mission to the Asteroid Belt could take place within 50 years, say rocket engineers, provided humans reach Mars by 2038. Their prediction is based on an economic analysis of the rate at which space budgets increase over time and how humans have increased their sphere of operations since the dawn of the space age.

The goal of Jonathan Jiang at the Jet Propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, and colleagues, was to work out a timeframe over which crewed missions to the Asteroid Belt, to Jupiter and even to Saturn might take place.

They began by studying how NASA’s budget has increased since it formed in 1958. There have been several peaks in this curve, corresponding to significant increases in spending.

 https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/first-human-landing-on-an-asteroid-by-2073-say-scientists

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This is utter, total bullsh*t!!  These so-called scientists have been telling us the earth is going to burn up within 10 years, a fact backed up by the greatist physicist of them all, Greta Thunberg! So how are we going to land on an asteroid when this earth will be nothing but a huge cinder block?

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I guess I'm just slow, but why do we want to land on an asteroid??