Proposed Next-Generation Space Station

WallytheWalrus writes "This NewScientist.com article discusses the proposed next generation of telescopes and space stations. The concept presented with little fanfare by the NASA Exploration Team (NEXT) consists of placing a space station about 5/6ths of the way to the moon at one of a handful of local Lagrangian Points. This station would act as a springboard for constructing new telescopic mirrors, maintaining the telescopes that use them, and as a haven for future manned exploration missions. If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...."

A real NASA project

[Anonymous Coward]

NASA should invent a time machine for the sole purpose of preventing slashdot duplications [slashdot.org].

We need a class

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like we need to teach some people how to use that new fangled botton in the upper right corner of the screen (the one labled SEARCH).

Re:Space Cowboys

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's some advice. Don't make Eastwood's day. It's not a good idea. Punk.

Good choice for name

[Anonymous Coward]

If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...
Maybe Apple [apple.com] will buy them too :)

Progress...

[DarkHelmet]

If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...."

Well, at least this year the toilets on the space station will be ready and paid for.

Poor Timothy

[MyHair]

Can somebody check to see if Timothy has Alzheimer's?

Re:So...

[failrate]

Holy crap, a split second before I posted that bad joke, it had already become redundant!!

There must be a glitch in the Matrix....

[Lord_Slepnir]

....Deja Vous! [slashdot.org]

Re:There must be a glitch in the Matrix....

[Foogle]

Vous, huh? Was that a command? Oh well.

Re:lagrangian points

[Alsee]

The point where the gravitational pulls of the Earth and the Moon cancel each other out is somewhere inside the Earth crust.

Yep, that's why people on the surface of the earth occationally fall up to the moon, because they are on the moon side of the balancing point.

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Re:budget

[GigsVT]

4 million a year? My company spent more on that just implementing one database last year, which isnt even all that business critical.

You work for California don't you?

Obligatory Gundam Reference

[Kaboom13]

But the astronauts might get carried away, build cool mechs and attack the earth! We better start developing gundamium now! I hear it can only be made in space however, so we will finally have a use for the ISS...