Popular Science Article on Human Missions to NEOs

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Here we are, nearly eight years into the 21st century, and the most spectacular manned mission NASA can pull off is a trip to the International Space Station, a mere 210 miles above the Earth. Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger for space exploration that's more dramatic, more heroic, more new. Something like, say, landing astronauts on a distant rock hurtling through space at 15 miles per second.

"NASA's New Target: A manned mission to an asteroid sounds far-fetched, but a new study says it will soon be possible"
Dawn Stover
October 2007
Popular Science

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