Getting this out of the way: Ballistic Missile with Love
Titor's mission could easily be intertwined with an ELE (extinction level event) such as Apophis here that could smash into the planet sometime in the 2030's.
In a before/after sequence of events, going back to this time and getting needed equipment to not only deal with multiple rocket systems, but with impending Unix doom. In a weird kind of trial/error way this would be the easiest way to deal with an impending asteroid, given needed upgrades in physics and engineering. Such that maybe you nailed the asteroid, and maybe you had some coefficient of success in either deflecting the event or minimizing the effects of it. Combined with the Unix Extinction Event (UEE, prounounced like WHEEEEEE!) this would be an easily plausible explanation.
Titor's mission could easily be intertwined with an ELE (extinction level event) such as Apophis here that could smash into the planet sometime in the 2030's.
In a before/after sequence of events, going back to this time and getting needed equipment to not only deal with multiple rocket systems, but with impending Unix doom. In a weird kind of trial/error way this would be the easiest way to deal with an impending asteroid, given needed upgrades in physics and engineering. Such that maybe you nailed the asteroid, and maybe you had some coefficient of success in either deflecting the event or minimizing the effects of it. Combined with the Unix Extinction Event (UEE, prounounced like WHEEEEEE!) this would be an easily plausible explanation.