Let's Put An Asteroid In Orbit Around the Moon
In 2010, President Obama set a sky-high goal for NASA: to send a team of astronauts to visit a near Earth asteroid (NEO) by 2025.
But rather then propelling humans on a dangerously long journey into interplanetary space, why not bring the asteroid here? This is the ultimate rock collector’s dream plop a 500 ton space rock into orbit about the moon.
Posted by Joseph Hany
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