NASA's asteroid lasso mission said to halt Apocalypse scenario

Speaking at the Human to Mars Summit, NASA's top administrator, Charles Bolden, pledges to work to "prevent an asteroid from colliding with devastating force into our planet."

May 6, 2013

The government's plan is surprisingly similar to the premise of the 1998 film "Armageddon," but in the real-life scenario the U.S. space agency plans to lasso a small asteroid and tow it close enough to Earth so that it can be visited by astronauts. The astronauts then will collect samples and conduct research that could one day assist in a mission to Mars or save Earth from a catastrophic collision.

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