President Barack Obama next week will ask Congress to accelerate plans to send U.S. astronauts to an asteroid, moving up to 2021 the nation’s next grand goal for human space exploration, officials said Friday.
First, scientists would identify an asteroid, and in 2019, a robotic spacecraft would snare the space rock and tow it back to an orbit on the far side of the moon two years later.
First, scientists would identify an asteroid, and in 2019, a robotic spacecraft would snare the space rock and tow it back to an orbit on the far side of the moon two years later.
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