Asteroid Capture and Sampling Mission – NASA

An animation of a proposed mission to capture a near Earth asteroid and bring it back to the Earth/Moon system for exploration.

NASA’s 2014 budget proposal includes a plan to  capture a small near-Earth asteroid and bring it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.

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