Tag: Asteroid Redirect Mission
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Trump budget blueprint focuses on deep space exploration, commercial partnerships
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission grabbing a piece of an asteroid, a project due for cancellation under President Trump’s budget proposal. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is proposing $19.1 billion for NASA in its fiscal 2018 budget blueprint, a 0.8 percent decrease from 2017 funding levels,…
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NASA turning to U.S. industry to build asteroid redirect craft
Artist’s concept of the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission spacecraft with a captured boulder from an asteroid. Credit: NASA NASA is seeking proposals from U.S. satellite manufacturers interested in building the spacecraft bus for the agency’s initiative to pluck a boulder from an asteroid and drive it into lunar orbit, with plans to select multiple winners…
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NASA opts to grab a boulder, not the whole asteroid
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the robotic spacecraft designed to retrieve a boulder from the surface of an asteroid. Credit: NASA After an extended review, NASA has opted to forgo capturing a small asteroid as an interim step on the road to sending astronauts to Mars. Instead, the…