How NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Would Work

How NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Would Work

Aug 23rd 2013, 11:00, by Casey Chan

It’s not quite Armageddon, but NASA’s revealed a concept video animation detailing how it would find, capture, re-direct, and study a near-Earth asteroid. In the animation by NASA, you can see a crew of astronauts taking off on the Orion spacecraft and using the Moon to swing onto the captured asteroid. In NASA’s plans, Orion [...]