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NASA plans to stop asteroid hitting earth
NASA astronomers are currently undertaking the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. Till date no threatening asteroids have been discovered. The last big impact of asteroid was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
NASA plans to stop asteroid hitting earth
In February this year a large meteor hit Russia injuring about a thousand of people. But next time it will be different, and NASA plans to take the Asteroid head-on and is working towards preventing any kind of Apocalypse scenario that affects earth in future.
Soon after the Russian accident, US announced that it will work toward an Asteroid Tracking Technology. And yesterday NASA administrator Charles Bolden took it a step further as he said that the space agency is planning to send a robotic spaceship to lasso, a small asteroid and bring it
closer to the moon for astronauts to explore. This asteroid lasso mission might “prevent an asteroid from colliding with devastating force into our planet.”NASA astronomers are currently undertaking the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. Till date no threatening asteroids have been discovered. The last big impact of asteroid was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
NASA has already submitted a USD 100 million budget to start this Asteroid capture mission, of which the US government has sanctioned USD 78 million for the fiscal year 2014. NASA might use the Orion spacecraft for this mission.
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