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What should NASA be doing to both capture the public's attention and actually do practical work that benefits humanity?

Asked by timtrueman (5765points) May 5th, 2010

The missions NASA undertakes with robots are pretty awesome and useful (I think) but manned missions going places we haven’t been would seem like they could recapture some attention and inspire future generations (but who knows).

What missions/projects would you propose, given their limited budget, to inspire future generations of kids to be scientists and engineers as well as actually advancing humanity (and protecting us against asteroids of course)?

Who else is going to make all the stuff in science fiction become non-fiction?

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