Next year, NASA will spend $ 100 million to launch a new project with which it is planned to attract an asteroid into the orbit of the moon for further study and research.
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This significant amount is likely to become part of the federal program planned by US President Barack Obama for 2014 year. This money will be spent on an asteroid study project, in under which, in 2021, astronauts can even land on space object. On April 5, Senator Bill Nelson announced that it part of a larger project that combines drilling an asteroid, studying its trajectory and studying its motion in space. This project will help scientists understand how get to Mars. The essence of the NASA project is to robotic spaceship “catch” one of asteroids flying near earth orbit and then tow him into the stable orbit of the moon. Then in 2012 on board the capsule Orion astronauts capsule and spacecraft will go on asteroid the rocket on which it will be launched is currently located in developing. This idea is similar to the project proposed in the past. by researchers at the Space Institute in Pasadena. “Experience, acquired in this expedition will help us in further space research: we will study other near-Earth asteroids, satellites of Mars Phobos and Deimos, subsequently the planet itself Mars and the asteroid belt, “scientists at the Pasadena Institute report. actually for the implementation of this NASA space project much more money will be needed than the originally declared 100 million dollars. According to the latest data, in order to pull 500-ton asteroid into orbit of the moon, more than 2.5 required billion dollars! According to Senator Nelson, the administration Obama’s positive attitude towards this project on attraction asteroid. In 2010, the president urged NASA to send astronauts to the near-Earth asteroid by 2025, and to Mars by the mid-2030s years. However, few people have heard about the distribution of $ 100 million. surprised since last month it became known that NASA plans to receive this amount by 2014.
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