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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/22/lki04e0pzueegkkb1ren-scaled.jpg?quality=7525601440Space is great, and it is very fun to have an agency that funds research missions to explore things far from our little planet. NASA has announced two new potential robotic missions: one to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and one to Saturn’s moon Titan.