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What’s The Asteroid Capture Mission Going to Look Like? NASA’s Starting Its Review
An artist’s conception of a spacecraft designed to pick up an asteroid. Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory
It’s still unclear if NASA will receive Congressional funding or authorization to do an asteroid retrieval proposal backed by President Barack Obama’s administration, but as missions take time to plan, the agency is moving ahead with its work for now.
NASA just did a mission formulation review this week to look at some internal studies on the mission. It also is starting to wade through hundreds of ideas the space community submitted concerning the mission.
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