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Manned Asteroid Flyby Mission
wired.com 3 weeks, 4 days agoAsteroids often arouse fear when they should really arouse fascination. Relics of the early Solar System, they contain clues to the formation of the planets. In 1966, a Northrop Space Laboratories engineer proposed a piloted flyby of the near-Earth asteroid Eros to prepare astronauts for voyages to the planets. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this early plan for a manned asteroid mission.










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