Sunday, April 14, 2013

NASA to capture asteroid ( video)

via Drudge and Daily Mail UK

No details provided on how it is actually going to be done.  No links provided that show how to find this information.

Update:

Here are a few more details.

Quote:
"Extraction of propellants, bulk shielding and life support fluids from this first captured asteroid could jump-start an entire space-based industry," the Keck team writes. "Our space capabilities would finally have caught up with the speculative attractions of using space resources in situ."




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