In the US space agency consider two possible options, which will “acquaintance” with the asteroid.
-> Landing on an asteroid is not the easiest thing, the authors believe the program
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NASA is preparing a program that allows you to send a manned spacecraft to an asteroid with astronauts. For these purposes will be used by the new ship “Orion”, recently committed its first test flight.
NASA Assistant Director Robert Lightfoot sure to implement such a program within five years. Currently, there is a preparation for the hunt on the asteroid for a thorough examination of the celestial body, without which a landing on an asteroid does not produce.
Scientists have two options capture an asteroid – the first is the launch of a small asteroid with a diameter of 10 meters automatic machine that it nakinet metal chain and drag it to a stable orbit around the moon. The second option is more simple – it involves towing on lunar surface is not the whole asteroid, but only a small fragment thereof.
The program prepares the project safety earth from the asteroid threat. On the program of flight and landing astronauts on an asteroid their plans to spend $ 1.25 billion.
Space Telescope WISE found 107 asteroids that in the future with a high probability can collide with the Earth, and scientists on the basis of these data made a list of 10 countries that are completely killed in the collision.
According to the materials: nasa.org
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