NASA plans to “pinch off” for the study of a piece of an asteroid – News Space and Astronomy

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In the next five years, space agency NASA plans to launch a rocket to an asteroid and” pinch off “from him a piece of sampling. This will be a springboard and a training mission before sending the first man on Mars.

On Wednesday, the agency announced the details of the project, with a budget of $ 1.25 billion. As part of his December 2020 plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft with solar batteries on the asteroid. The device will hold about a year, moving around a large asteroid, and “otschipnet” from his 4-foot boulder using a robotic arm. After that, a piece of the asteroid will be transported to the moon and “parked” in lunar orbit.

In 2025, using a giant spaceship and a crew capsule “Orion”, which is still under development, two astronauts go to space and lunar begin studying fragments of asteroids. They come out in the open space, will make a “walk” on the wreckage and deliver even a small piece of it to Earth for laboratory research.

Perhaps a piece of the asteroid is so small that it can not resist even two people. “During this mission, we obtain data that will be needed in the future to send astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, and then to Mars,” – says Robert Lightfoot, assistant director of NASA.

Lightfoot also identified and the main subject of the forthcoming investigations. Them is the asteroid 2008 EV5. Its width is nearly four meters. For its size the object is superior to most asteroids that orbit the Sun near the Earth. The objects of study can also be asteroids Itokawa and Benn.

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nip .. .
How weak Zemletsizatsiya that her 4-meter piece of hanging out harmlessly in space, pinch off, and then its representatives get to him, and will learn as much as ten years! And then they come back to Earth with some sort of pathetic …
Inoekzoplutoyane stub, you can sleep, that is, to fight peacefully, here Zemlete live technical dohlyaki, baboons, who have learned only to kill only each other, shaking their nuclear and hired relics.
But we will wait for a successful tweaking ….

26-03-2015 Evaluation: 0

Sorry, a bit out of topic.
Prompt please how do I use the telescope?
donate, but I can not understand.
Celestron called.
watched in the internet, but no one really can not explain how to look and catch ordinary stars? Left a small pair of binoculars. There are a lot of different instruments, tried different options, but does not work. One disappointment. Help …

26-03-2015 Evaluation: +1

And still wondering what tool will be used when astronaffty otschipyvanii scraps that they want to bring back to Earth? Hammer, chisel, Kirk?

26-03-2015 Evaluation: 0

Or the time in ten years, have come up with kosmoperfobur, but not the same as that of the rover that such naotschipyvaesh.

26-03-2015 Evaluation: 0

Hammer and Sickle will “pinch off”.

26-03-2015 Evaluation: +5

A05, the same name telescopes sea, and all different (for every budget):-)
Go to the website of the same name (dot ru), find your telescope in the “Products” and download instructions. Good luck!

26-03-2015 Evaluation: +5

Presented picture as two astronauts sit on this pebble, his head in his hands sad.

27- 03-2015 Evaluation: +5

dilettant21, you are wrong, they will either dolborurit, well that is schipachestvom engaged (not in the criminal sense, of course, kosmomiticheskom).
Either these brave guys will do this 4-foot piece buldygana great steps chelovekchestva.
They will not be there they are bored with podpёrtymi hands, and think there is nothing.
They will not look at the great philosophers, and more on migrant workers, poking around in the rocks with a shovel.

27-03-2015 Evaluation : 0

Leonid3. Thanks, I’ll try …

27-03-2015 Evaluation: +1

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