What does NASA know that we don’t?
NASA is developing plans to land an astronaut on an asteroid in case there’s a future collision-course-with-Earth scenario in the near future. But NASA’s Chris McKay, speaking in an interview with Space.com, doesn’t inspire much confidence as to our goals. The public wants us to have mastered the problem of dealing with asteroids. So being ...
NASA is developing plans to land an astronaut on an asteroid in case there's a future collision-course-with-Earth scenario in the near future. But NASA's Chris McKay, speaking in an interview with Space.com, doesn't inspire much confidence as to our goals.
The public wants us to have mastered the problem of dealing with asteroids. So being able to have astronauts go out there and sort of poke one with a stick would be scientifically valuable as well as demonstrate human capabilities.”
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