Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 27, 2014 #1 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Asteroid Initiative Opportunities Forum Highlights Progress, Public Participation NASA officials discussed latest progress and new opportunities in the agency's Asteroid Initiative in a March 26 forum with members of the aerospace industry, academia and space enthusiasts. The forum followed a March 21 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) calling for additional mission concept studies led outside of NASA, with $6 million in potential awards.NASA’s Asteroid Initiative is comprised of an Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC) to develop new partnerships and collaborations to accelerate NASA’s existing planetary defense work, and a mission to capture and redirect an asteroid and visit it with astronauts to collect samples. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 27, 2014 Author #2 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Asteroid Redirect Mission: Concept HighlightsA one-minute video of Asteroid Redirect Mission highlights featuring concepts of capturing an asteroid by encapsulation and robotically collecting a boulder from its surface.Credit: NASASource: NASA - Multimedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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