Nasa is developing a first-ever robotic mission to visit a large near-Earth asteroid, collect a multi-ton boulder from its surface, and redirect it into a stable orbit around the moon.
Once it’s there, astronauts will explore it and return with samples in the 2020s. The Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) is part of Nasa’s plan to advance the new technologies and spaceflight experience needed for human missions into deep space. The robotic mission also will provide the first large-scale asteroid samples on which to conduct…
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