Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense

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From Ars Technica:
"... However, as several previous surveys have found, the public has far different priorities for NASA than are expressed in the space agency's budget. In this new report, based on a large survey of 10,329 US adults, the highest support came for "monitor asteroids, other objects that could hit the Earth" (60 percent) and "monitor key parts of the Earth's climate system" (50 percent). Sending astronauts to the Moon (12 percent) and Mars (11 percent) lagged far behind as top priorities for respondents. ..."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/o ... d-defense/

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[Graeme1858]

Interesting survey results.

Graeme

[messier 111]

here is the kind of news, which makes hummmmmm.