NASA’s asteroid lasso mission said to halt Apocalypse scenario

NASA is planning an expedition to capture an asteroid.

(Credit:
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office)

Shortly after a large meteor hit Russia in February, injuring about 1,000 people, President Obama’s administration announced that the U.S. would work on asteroid tracking technology to avoid potentially more severe Earth collisions. On Monday, top NASA administrator Charles Bolden reiterated this pledge. Bolden spoke at the Human to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday and said that a robotic spacecraft mission currently being planned will “prepare efforts to prevent an…

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