In the Space Agency of the United States said that they intend to send the inhabitants of our planet to the surface of the asteroid. To achieve the desired result we need the asteroid need, literally, to tow the orbit of the moon.
The assistant chief of NASA Robert Lightfoot told at a press conference that the exact scenario of landing of the inhabitants of our planet in the asteroid will be developed in early 2015. While preparing 2 variants of the operation. 1st means to send a spacecraft to the asteroid, with a diameter of 10 meters, throw it on metal chain and drag it to a stable orbit around the moon. option 2 is similar to the 1st, only going to the moon "to tow" is not a asteroid and its fragment, the size of a large boulder.
Anyway the mission will be taken no earlier than 5 years. After that, in the area of 2025, NASA plans to send to the asteroid or its fragment manned spacecraft with the crew. For present purposes, it is expected to use Orion, NASA was able to run 5 December only 2 times. The Agency expects that in 2030-s it will be the 1st trip of the planet Mars.
Each of the 2 versions of "hunting" for the asteroid is estimated to be approximately $ 1.25 billion. Additionally, the 1st is easier and cheaper, but despite all of the above 2-Oh "gives the opportunity to try out much more of the needed technologies," TASS quoted Lightfoot. At the moment, is the study of "space wrecker" who will be able to bring the asteroid to the moon and choice directly asteroids. NASA has in mind the six heavenly bodies - three for each option.
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