NASA Asteroid Defenses Get A Budget Bump

Credit: New Horizons: NASA/JHUAPL
HOUSTON—Planetary defenses, overshadowed perhaps by an enthusiasm over a U.S. human return to the moon, are nonetheless riding the lunar coattail within NASA’s proposed 2019 budget for planetary sciences. Indeed, planetary defense appears likely to be the focus of a late 2022 mission to demonstrate...

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