How to Bag an Asteroid
NASA's plan to retrieve an asteroid starts with a robotic mission to rendezvous with a 25-foot space rock in 2019 and place it in a capture bag. The asteroid would then be returned to the neighborhood of Earth and the Moon for closer examination by astronauts, who would launch in 2021 in the new Orion spacecraft. (03:52)
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