We’re going to bring an asteroid fragment into Lunar orbit
‘NASA has pressed the ‘Go’ button for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).
During July, the project went through ‘Key Decision Point-B’, and it got the tick from management on August 15, meaning the agency is going to get busy on a ‘baseline mission design’.
The plan, as we reported in March 2015, is to rendezvous with a suitable near-Earth asteroid; chip off a chunk to bring back to Earth; and nudge the asteroid into Lunar orbit.’
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