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XKCD Imagines Rejected Space Mission Profiles

Original: "Rejected Space Mission Profiles" by XKCD comic - XKCD's artist imagines some potential but fictitious space probes whic

Randall Munroe's latest XKCD comic, 'Rejected Space Mission Profiles', presents fictional space probes that never got off the drawing board, including a Jupiter rover, a Voyager 2 orbiter and a crewed Pluto flyby. Space enthusiasts are sharing the strip and debating the absurd missions, joking about which impossible profile they would champion.

Why now: The new XKCD comic about implausible space missions is being shared and joked about among space fans.

XKCDRandall MunroeJupiterVoyager 2Pluto

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• "Rejected Space Mission Profiles" by XKCD comic - XKCD's artist imagines some potential but fictitious space probes which never would have made it anyway... Jupiter rover, Voyager 2 orbiter, Crewed Pluto flyby (fiction or not, I'm sure @ simonbp has already called dibs) and… · AstroHawk@spacey.space · 13

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