NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission To Redirect Asteroid After All

摘要

NASA has at last confirmed something that seemed implicit until it was not: that redirecting an asteroid sample to lunar orbit is indeed the goal of the agency's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Asked here during a June 29 meeting of the NASA-chartered Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) whether the agency considered asteroid redirection a success criteria for ARM, Michele Gates, program director for the Asteroid Redirect Mission at NASA headquarters, answered "yes."