Top NASA Advisor Has Reservation About Asteroid Capture Plan

The renowned planetary scientist who chairs the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) says he is happy with two-thirds of the agency’s proposal to capture a small asteroid and nudge it into a high lunar orbit for examination by spacewalking astronauts early in the coming decade. Developing the capability to...

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