Coondoggie writes "NASA is trying to decide between eight space tour missions that include further exploring Venus and comet composition as well landing on an asteroid or examining the space around Jupiter. The space agency today began accepting solicitations for these space scrutiny opportunities and will finally pick one of them to begin perusing in 2009 with a launch date targeted at 2018. The solicitations and utmost expedition are part of NASA's New Frontiers program, which has as its main objective to explore the solar system with medium-class spacecraft missions that will conduct high-quality, focused scientific investigations, NASA said. The first New Frontiers mission was selected in 2003 and will result in the launch of Juno, a Jupiter polar orbiter mission set to blast off in 2011."

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