Solar Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Could Get NASA To an Asteroid

coondoggie writes "In the process of detailing its $17.7 billion 2014 budget this week, NASA highlighted a mission to snag a 500-ton asteroid, bring it back, stash it near the moon and study it. It also took the time to put in a plug for an ongoing research project called Solar Electric Propulsion, which NASA says could be the key technology it needs to pull off the asteroid plan."

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Re:Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

There are GREENER technologies, you insensitive clod.
NO ONE even mentioned using a giant rubber band to launch a net around the asteroid , making it HANDY to tow.
How many Chinese must die for your Imperialist solar panels?
In the Glorious Peoples Republic of China we pioneered launching space tourists via rubber band many years before westerners had this. That is why our space program is superior to yours.You westerners pollute the world with your capitalist space programs.

Great

[JustOK]

Too bad they can only make a drive that works during sunny days in space.