President Barack Obama has indicated that the United States should embark upon a human space mission to Asteroid 1999 AO10 by 2025 with an unmanned mission to the Near Earth Object (NEO), according to plans taking form within the federal space agency.Previous identified as an option for human spaceflight, the asteroid mission is gaining currency within the science and space advocacy communities with three human launch opportunities in 2025, 2026 and 2032 – with three robotic precursor opportunities in 2019, 2020, or 2021.
The plan now envisioned at NASA would have humans spending 14-days at the asteroid for an deep space journey of about 150-days or about the average expedition length stay now at the International Space Station. A successful human asteroid mission would begin to build capability for a planetary defense against an NEO-Earth impact.
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