And in the next few years we're likely to see a number of roboticspacecraft demonstrate the rendezvous and capture technologies that would be needed in these selective culls.
It involves the docking a small roboticspacecraft onto the surface of an asteroid and then using the same propulsion unit that got it there to push the asteroid off its course.
"In a nutshell, the plan in NASA's hands calls for catching an asteroid with a roboticspacecraft and towing it back toward Earth, where it would then be placed in a stable orbit around the moon, " read a statement from the office of Florida Sen.
Alien superbugs and space spiders are the subjects of two student-designed science experiments due to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 20) aboard a robotic Japanese spacecraft.