NASA should drop plans to visit and establish an outpost on the moon, and instead should focus on something more practical: saving mankind from extinction by a killer comet or asteroid, according to one observer. Gregg Easterbrook is contributing editor of The Atlantic and The New Republic, a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C., and an author. Easterbrook cites work by Columbia University geophysicist Dallas Abbott that shows many more large space objects such as meteors…
Critic: NASA Should Abandon Moon Missions, And Develop Means To Fend Off Killer Comets, Meteoroids Instead
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