Solar Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Could Get NASA To an Asteroid 53
coondoggie writes "In the process of detailing its $17.7 billion 2014 budget this week, NASA highlighted a mission to snag a 500-ton asteroid, bring it back, stash it near the moon and study it. It also took the time to put in a plug for an ongoing research project called Solar Electric Propulsion, which NASA says could be the key technology it needs to pull off the asteroid plan."
Awesome (Score:5, Informative)
Glad you linked that article that includes mention of this mystery research project for Solar Electric Propulsion and mentions not a single speck of information as to what the hell that is.
in case you're wondering its the kind of ion drive Deep Space 1 [wikipedia.org] (NSTAR) , progressing technology but not some crazy new thing.