Concepts For Asteroid Missions Proposed
By Mark Carreau, Frank Morring, Jr.
Houston, Washington
President Barack Obama’s call for a mission to send astronauts to an asteroid has scientists and engineers pondering just what it would take.
While Congress and the White House have yet to settle on an exploration policy to replace the Bush administration’s lunar-return goal, the Augustine panel’s call for a “flexible path” into the Solar System beyond low Earth orbit, and ...
