As NASA’s asteroid impact mission nears, similar Chinese efforts raise eyebrows
NASA's DART spacecraft, designed to bash into a small asteroid and push it off course, is on track to impact on Sept. 26.
NASA's DART spacecraft, designed to bash into a small asteroid and push it off course, is on track to impact on Sept. 26.
US discovery and exploitation of rare earth minerals from the Moon and asteroids "could change the balance of power on Earth," enthused NASA Administration Jim Bridenstine.
"If you look at the orbits of the stuff that's going around the Moon, It looks like a drunken sailor wandering around as compared to the orbits that we're used to describing closer to the Earth," AFRL's Col. Eric Felt says.