Posted on 08/23/2014 7:58:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I wholeheartedly agree. While I don’t think human missions to an asteroid would make sense as anything except practice for long-duration space voyages (the ultimately objective being Mars landings in the middle term, and trips to Ceres, Vesta, and Mercury in the longer term), and perhaps as good international PR, I would like to see autonomous probes traveling to and assaying all the near-Earth rocks, and larger ones that are further out.
lol
That is on way to put it
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