NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission in Brief | Animation

Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 14:02 in Astronomy & Space

On its Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA hopes to 'encapsulate' an asteroid using a robot ship – and also remove a boulder – before bringing the mass in range of astronauts to perform some, yet unexplained, tasks.

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