The photos keep getting better and better,
simply amazing. I could see a landing on the narrow waist
but wonder how communications would be affected.
Plenty of dust or ice on the rest of it to land on
also.
Will be following this closely over the next
months.
t.
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.