Concept animation of NASA’s proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission

If a near - Earth object hap to come hurtling dangerously close to Earth , the manned charge to gather samples from the captured physical object might count something like this .

NASA is still develop a redirect missionary post as part of its asteroid enterprisingness , but eject this concept in the form of this video anda gallery of imagesthis week . In this fanciful conception video , the asteroid has already been capture by seizure vehicle . A two - individual gang travels nine day in the aforethought Orion spacecraft to rendezvous with the catch asteroid and accumulate sample of the physical object . The picture does n’t bring us to the actual redirection , rather focalize on the manned portion of the mission .

As part of NASA ’s continued development of the initiative , the government agency is measure 400 response received to a request for information in which industry , universities and the public proffer idea for the initiative . NASA will be holding a technical shop to discuss those responses at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 .