NASA Emphasizes Planetary Protection For Asteroid Capture

Credit: NASA
Faced with congressional recalcitrance over its plan to capture a small asteroid and nudge it into lunar orbit for hands-on study, NASA is emphasizing the link between finding a target and cataloging near-Earth objects (NEOs) that could devastate the planet if they hit. As a bonus, top agency...

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