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MOSCOW, April 4 () -- Russia says its Roscosmos space agency may join NASA in an ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and bring it to a lunar orbit for exploration.The asteroid-retrieval proposal -- to capture a 25-foot, 500-ton asteroid in a net and tow it to an orbit around the moon -- was first proposed last year by the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena."[It is] a very interesting project, which NASA proposes to carry out jointly with Roscosmos specialists,[url=http://www.supratksocietyvip.com/]supra tk society[/url]," Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said."We could send a manned expedition to explore the asteroid or study it with probes," he said.NASA reportedly is set to ask Congress for $100 million in its next budget request to initiate the project that could be in place by 2025, RIA Novosti reported.Keck researchers said they estimated the entire cost of such a retrieval mission could reach $2.65 billion. |
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