NASA Funds Projects For Asteroid-Capture Plan 65
An anonymous reader writes: NASA has announced funding for 18 different projects aimed at developing an asteroid retrieval mission. "The agency is working on two concepts for the mission. The first concept would fully capture a very small asteroid in free space and the other would retrieve a boulder off of a much larger asteroid. Both concepts would redirect an asteroid mass less than 10 meters in size to orbit the moon. Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth." Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have also identified and measured the size of a candidate near-earth asteroid. It measures roughly six meters in diameter, and seems to be held together lightly, possible as a "pile of rubble."
great... (Score:4, Funny)
Now we're all going to die of an alien disease.
Doesn't NASA watch any sci-fi?
Seems Legit (Score:4, Funny)
Well... It works in Kerbal Space Program.
Re: Seems Legit (Score:3, Funny)