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Faculties and Departments => Faculty Sections => Topic started by: riazur on May 06, 2015, 02:50:58 PM

Title: NASA unveiled a plan to "lasso" an asteroid.
Post by: riazur on May 06, 2015, 02:50:58 PM

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NASA has a plan for an asteroid retrieval initiative that involves "bagging" a small asteroid and dragging it back into orbit around the moon, to be visited later by astronauts who will bring samples back to Earth.

If successful, this would be the first-ever mission to identify, capture, and relocate an asteroid, also giving the space agency greater insight into identifying potentially hazardous asteroids.