NASA have revealed plans to deploy a giant space bag in space to 'catch' Halley's comet,
and
here is the best part, a UK company Polybags is delighted to confirm itspartnership with NASA to make a giant space bag out of Polymax, the project is
the brainchild of NASA's special projects director, Dr Jan Ingfacht, and is a
response to concern in astronomical circles that Halley's comet will smash in
to the Earth when it next returns in 2025,
the GSB project will blast off in 2024 on a single Arianne launcher carrying 2 lightweight satellites and the folded giant space bag itself, once in orbit, the satellites will unfurl the giant space bag using special robot arms and legs, the bag which largely resembles a normal carrier bag will be positioned to 'catch' the comet as it hurtles unsuspectingly through space, at a NASA press conference Dr Ingfacht said "The bag will need to be very big and strong", once captured the comet will be towed back to Earth for the scientific community to analyse and then broken up in to small pieces and sold on the internet,
the GSB project will blast off in 2024 on a single Arianne launcher carrying 2 lightweight satellites and the folded giant space bag itself, once in orbit, the satellites will unfurl the giant space bag using special robot arms and legs, the bag which largely resembles a normal carrier bag will be positioned to 'catch' the comet as it hurtles unsuspectingly through space, at a NASA press conference Dr Ingfacht said "The bag will need to be very big and strong", once captured the comet will be towed back to Earth for the scientific community to analyse and then broken up in to small pieces and sold on the internet,
so in just a few years time, well 11 in fact we
could all be bidding for a piece of Halleys's comet, I wonder how much an once
or so will be?
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