Experts Will Weigh In On How to Put Humans On an Asteroid

August 10, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Posted in Space Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

Source: Space.com

A visit by humans to an asteroid may take a step closer to reality at a NASA workshop this week.

A spirit of excitement is bubbling over NASA’s new aim, not unlike when the agency first aimed to land a man on the moon, NASA’s Laurie Leshin said ahead of the two-day session, set for Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Experts and leaders from government, academia, industry and the international community are expected to weigh in on what would be required to stage a mission to a near-Earth object, according to Leshin, deputy associate administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate…more