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WASHINGTON (AP) NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.
The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking exploration, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said the plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth.
Nelson, who is chairman of the Senate science and space subcommittee, said Friday that President Barack Obama is putting $100 million in planning money for the accelerated asteroid mission in the 2014 budget that comes out next week. The money would be used to find the right small asteroid.
"It really is a clever concept," Nelson said in a press conference in Orlando. "Go find your ideal candidate for an asteroid. Go get it robotically and bring it back."
This would be the first time ever humanity has manipulated a space object in such a grand scale, like what it does on Earth, said Robert Braun, a Georgia Institute of Technology aerospace engineering professor who used to be NASA's chief technology officer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.
The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking exploration, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said the plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space rock closer to Earth.
Nelson, who is chairman of the Senate science and space subcommittee, said Friday that President Barack Obama is putting $100 million in planning money for the accelerated asteroid mission in the 2014 budget that comes out next week. The money would be used to find the right small asteroid.
"It really is a clever concept," Nelson said in a press conference in Orlando. "Go find your ideal candidate for an asteroid. Go get it robotically and bring it back."
This would be the first time ever humanity has manipulated a space object in such a grand scale, like what it does on Earth, said Robert Braun, a Georgia Institute of Technology aerospace engineering professor who used to be NASA's chief technology officer.
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so are they expecting to find something on the asteroid? or is it just to check it out?
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Modarty wrote so are they expecting to find something on the asteroid? or is it just to check it out?
They are going to to research on it and stuff like that because it is thought that life was brought to Earth on an asteroid.
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Modarty wrote so are they expecting to find something on the asteroid? or is it just to check it out?
Diamonds are known to be on asteroids.
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Asteroids/Comets are just big chunks of ice. Scientist believe that when the earth was created that the asteroids from the asteroid belt and comets from the Kiaper belt brought water to earth. That's where we got all of our oceans and what not from.
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It'd be pretty cool if they actually found something on there, but then again I'm sure they wouldn't release that kind of thing to the public straight away.
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Should be interesting to see their discoveries. Shame it's so far away however.
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By the year 2021 we'll be over $21,000,000,000,000.00 in debt. So lets hope we do find something of value on this rock in space.
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Seems like a difficult task for NASA
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I mean, thats cool for NASA, but what if it all goes wrong and the thing some hurdling down to earth? Lol, good job NASA!
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