Discovery.com hosted an article this morning about the next three missions NASA’s considering for it’s money saving “New Frontiers” program. All three proposals have merit, but only one can be…The Next NASA Idol! Your three finalists are

1) Sending a probe Venus to find out why it’s unlivable.

2) Landing a rover on the moon’s southern pole to examine moonrocks thought to come from the moon’s core.

3) Sending a craft near an asteroid, grabbing two grams of said asteroid and bringing that sample back for extensive testing.

To sum up, your finalists are: crashing a probe into a planet that sucks anyway, send yet another rover to the moon to look at some boring rocks, or create a robot that’ll skin an asteroid, and return to tell the tale.

And the winner of the next NASA idol is…oh, we’re out of time! Tune in next week, or whenever NASA makes it’s decision!

Source: Discovery.com, Photo Source: NASA