Earth-Approaching Asteroids as Targets for Exploration (1978) http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Near-Earth Asteroids are prime targets for exploration, a fact realized in the 1970s. Such asteroids offer short-duration, low-cost opportunities to sample the Main Belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, from which most originate. In his latest Beyond Apollo post, historian David S. F. Portree looks at a 1978 bid to launch robotic and piloted missions to Near-Earth Asteroids.



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