US space agency NASA yesterday detailed plans to undertake an ambitious new space mission.
The new project, known within the organisation as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), involves the capture of a near-Earth asteroid, which would be transferred into a new orbit around the Moon. Astronauts would then visit this captured asteroid in lunar orbit, and conduct scientific tests into its composition, as well as taking samples to be…
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