Since the start of this year, NASA's been talking about the idea of capturing an asteroid and bringing it into orbit near the Earth, where astronauts can visit it and take home a sample. The US space agency isn't kidding around, either, already beginning plans to complete mission by 2025. But today, NASA is finally showing off exactly how this would all work, and it looks incredible. In a new series of conceptual images and video, NASA reveals new details, such as that it wants to use ion engines to help capture the asteroid; that once it does, it will take the still in-development Orion crew capsule nine days to get to the space rock; and that it wants two astronauts to perform the mission.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/22/4649106/nasa-asteroid-capture-concept-video-plans
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