L’importante sarebbe comunque vederlo! Speriamo che per questo si diano una mossa.
[size=10pt]The robotic spacecraft NASA planned to grab an asteroid boulder would not launch in 2020, as originally planned, but some time in the early- to mid-2020s. Michele Gates, the asteroid mission’s program manager, has regularly given presentations that show the robotic mission launching in December, 2020, reaching the target asteroid in 2022 and performing several experiments before dragging a boulder back to the vicinity of the Moon by 2025. If the robotic mission’s launch date slips three years, astronauts probably could not visit the boulder before 2027 or 2028, at the earliest. NASA almost certainly is not going to abandon the asteroid mission while President Obama is in office. However, until this year, it has never asked Congress for this large of an appropriation to be spent directly on the ARM mission. It will be most interesting to see how Congress responds to this request.[/size]