Sunday, July 24, 2011

Daunting space task: Send astronauts to asteroid

msnbc.com: Technology & Science

FILE - This file image released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, July 18, 2011 shows the asteroid Vesta, photographed by the Dawn spacecraft on July 17, 2011. The image was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL, File)With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.


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