Sentences with phrase «rocket boosters instead»

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Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

No surprise, Twitter and other largely anonymous online fora allow this community of conspiracy to flourish — necessitating responses showing that no, NASA does not have a «cloud machine» but is instead testing its rocket boosters.