NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget

Posted by timothy on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:06AM from the other-people's-money dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Included in President Obama's 2014 budget request will be a $100 million line item for NASA for a mission to capture and bring an asteroid to a high orbit around the moon where it will be explored by astronauts. Whether the $2.6 billion mission is a replacement or a supplement to the president's planned human mission to an asteroid is unclear. The proposal was first developed by the Keck Institite in April, 2012 and has achieved new impetus due to the meteor incident over Russia and new fears of killer asteroids."

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Re:Priorities by reboot246 · 2013-03-29 11:20 · Score: -1, Troll

Obama needs a new place to vacation. He's been damned near everywhere on Earth, some of them twice!

I haven't read about a golf course planned for the asteroid, but that's probably in the next proposal.