One-tine Congressional Skeptic Embraces Asteroid Redirect Mission

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The ranking Democrat on the House Science space subcommittee said March 18 she is having a change of heart in favor of NASA's proposal to send astronauts to a small asteroid by 2025. "It's no great secret that I haven't been the biggest fan of the whole idea," Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) said in a speech to NASA employees and contractors here at a Maryland Business Roundtable luncheon. But recently, Edwards saw NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on television describing the asteroid mission to a group of students. The account Bolden gave was "riveting," Edwards said. By the end of it, the three-term lawmaker said, she was "onboard" with NASA's plans.