NASA Relies On Asteroid Mission To Demo Mars Tech

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON — Managers assigned to the development of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, a precursor to the agency’s human Mars exploration plans, believe they can place two astronauts launched aboard a Space Launch System/Orion combination in proximity to a 20-ton boulder robotically plucked from an...

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