Richard Binzel on NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2014 - By the end of this decade, NASA hopes to lasso a space rock: The space agency is actively pursuing proposals for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) - a mission that aims to identify, capture, and redirect an asteroid into lunar orbit. Astronauts might then visit the rock to collect and bring back samples - pieces that would presumably hold remnants of the early solar system. ARM has been ... more

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