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NASA has a plan to just tow an asteroid around space like it's an old car

The crazy part about NASA’s Asteroid Initiative isn’t so much the part where we land human beings on an asteroid. That’s cool and all, sure. But the bit that precedes it is actually a little bit more mindblowing. To make that landing work, we’ll first have to send out robotic spacecraft to essentially capture an asteroid and tow it into a stable orbit around the Moon. Yeah. Seriously. Welcome to living in the future, dudes.

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