A small bloc within NASA, calling themselves Make Asteroids Great Again or MAGA for short, plans to utilize modern technology to harness the untapped riches within lunar bodies.
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Within the halls of debate, members of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration discuss near Earth objects, such as meteors and asteroids, and try to determine if they pose any threat to humanity or if they hold the key to the future of global development. Asteroid impact is no laughing matter, having caused mass extinction on Earth before, so naturally it is in humanities’ best interest to figure out a way to protect our planet from this potential threat. Fox News sat down with James Free, an associate admin at NASA, for the details:
“Potentially, yet un-likely, some of these bodies could come into contact with Earth and cause some serious threat to human life. In the recent past, the Chelyabinsk asteroid impacted Russia, and while there were no casualties, injuries and property damage ran rampant in the impact area.”
– James Free
While these issue are undeniably important to humanities’ survival, a few unique innovators inside of NASA have come up with an alternative possibility: landing space crafts on the asteroids in an attempt to mine for valuable resources. These scientific and entrepreneurial minds have come together to pose an ingenious plan to not only generate more money for the organization and its sponsors, but also to improve life on Earth for all humans. Casey Swails is a member of this NASA sub group, calling themselves MAGA in a no doubt imitation of the ever distinguished political movement made famous by President Trump, and has provided a general outline of the groups plan.
In MAGA’s six phase program, they intend to first reach agreements with the private sector to create space crafts and decide on funding, then to launch and anchor said space crafts to these near Earth asteroids. The next steps of their plan are the ones investors and the citizens of the world love to hear as it involves assessing and surveying the body for its composition, actually mining the asteroids for any valuable resources, and finally returning the space craft, and valuables, back home to Earth.
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Even though the proposed program has a steep cost somewhere in the lower billions for a test run, the funding NASA receives along with the undoubted financial reward the mission will bring back makes it an obvious benefit for the people of Earth. Our planet continues to lose natural resources like iron, fossil fuel, nickel, and platinum, but through this proposed initiative, the people of Earth would gain a nearly infinite amount useful resources that they can use to grow and develop. On top of this benefit, mining in space decreases the pollution caused by mining on Earth and this new access to previously untapped wealth of minerals will undoubtably financially benefit those involved and inevitably everyone on the planet.
NASA moves into a voting block now to decide whether or not this and other proposed paper should actually pass into real action, and unfortunately, due to policy, no media is allowed in to report, but the world can only pray for our future generations that this potentially revolutionary paper is unanimously passed and action is taken towards accessing these materials hidden away in the depth of space.