Manned Orion mission to an asteroid... |
Manned Orion mission to an asteroid... |
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This could take place before the Moon-landings: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace...ecbccdrcrd.html
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(Crazy thought) Emplace a thruster on the asteroid’s surface to slow and eventually stop its rotation prior to building your observatory. Might not take that long if the asteroid was small enough, and you had a nuclear reactor chugging away for ten years.
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That makes sense, although I not sure I see it happening. What I was wondering was since we may well do orion missions to asteroids anyway, what experiments could be piggybacked easily on a manned mission, and what experiments would it make sense to send?
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