Use an Asteroid to Get to Mars

31May13

Instead of trying to build spacecraft to travel to Mars, maybe we should be (1) learning to steer asteroids and (2) building spacecraft that could hitch rides on asteroids. The steering concept builds on what we already do with spacecraft.  The craft that we send off to explore parts of the solar system sometimes use […]

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