Why Do We Want To Capture An Asteroid?

Episode 3 of 5



In 2013 NASA introduced an asteroid-capture mission called ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission) which would bring an asteroid to moon's orbit by the year 2025.

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The Evolution Of NASA’s Ambitious Asteroid-Capture Mission:

“NASA's ambitious asteroid-capture mission has changed a lot since the agency officially announced its existence less than two years ago. The original plan, which was revealed in April 2013, called for dragging an intact small space rock into orbit around the moon, where it would be visited by astronauts, perhaps as early as 2021."

Animation Of Proposed Asteroid Retrieval Mission Video:

“NASA's 2014 budget poposes a mission to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and bring it into a stable lunar orbit where astronauts can visit and explore it, a 'stepping stone' to future missions to farther asteroids."

Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study:

“This report describes the results of a study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to investigate the feasibility of identifying, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth by the middle of the next decade."

NASA Aims To Land On, Capture Asteroids Within Next 15 Years:

“NASA researchers are at work developing a plan that not only hopes to physically place astronauts on an asteroid for the first time, but also to wrangle a space object and place it in the orbit of the Earth’s moon."

Meet The Team At Planetary Resources:

“Our stellar team of colleagues, advisors, investors and customers are bringing value to global markets today, while impacting humanity’s economic footprint in the Solar System."

Asteroid Mining Company’s 1st Satellite Launches From Space Station:

“A private spaceflight company took one small step for asteroid mining this week with the launch of its first spacecraft to test technology that may one day help tap into the riches of the solar system."

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[CardinalsFanBoy]

Trace I want to thank you so much for covering this topic! I've been writing a cosmic horror story for years and the idea of panspermia hangs heavy on the plot!

[CollegeTalkTV]

Because it's a legendary pokemon and you want to be the very best.

[CyberCellGame]

This is great though! In a capitalistic dominated society having a chance for making profit in space will spark a huge leap in space exploration from the private sector.

[psypher]

Space Topics = Favorite Test Tube plus episodes

[everythingloud]

I love this channel thanks for all your videos and work you put into them keep it up.

[mithun]

I love this podcast! It has taught me a lot of things. What would be even more awesome (but little more work for you) will be the ability to post graphics about things you are talking about right on the screen. I love learning by listen but I love even more if I get to see what I am learning about. That would be awesome if you could do that. But if not thats fine too, thank you for doing all this.

Also a topic I think you should do about is the atmosphere such as whats it's made out of and how people think it's nothing but it is strong enough to stop asteroids. Or about language, like how language was invented and evolved and where they are so many type of languages

[wayge]

there arent many things that can grab my attention like space

[hannibalbarca]

to mine it for resources to make a intergalactic walmart

[alphahr]

Back in the early 90's we were discussing at Boeing the practicality of landing and affixing a booster and fuel source to a large nickle/iron asteroid and boosting it back to a Lagrange point where a solar furnace could extract raw materials. With the advent of ION drives, this makes it far more practical.

[tumaru]

I keep coming back to an idea I had a long time ago. The idea at the time was to make a faux structure around the spaceship to make maintenance easier and to protect it from micro asteroids using foam or a blow up structure, essentially something expandable.

Why not build a structure around this asteroid to work in. You might get away with a lot less protection on the inside letting astronauts use their tools more easily.

[NoBoxLimit]

at 02:00 was that the mic' or you? XD

[NikesZ]

Maybe they can find some alien poop on it and clone an alien :)

[uomuamua]

I have 2 kind of asteroid the fire ball asteroid and super massive asteroid who killed the dinosaur. I'm looking for a good buyer it's an ancient asteroid. Can you help me?

[kerrywebb]

and with the astoid captuar something like a oil filter spanner or ring what ever u like to call it but up scailed with a block and tackle to lift car motors etc the u can have veroies sizes

[biocybernaught]

What do we do when we capture an asteroid? Fling it at our enemies, of course :)

[AndiYagudayevalt]

An asteroid is a win-win because it pulls a potentially dangerous asteroid out of the equation and you will get more new resources without needing to mine the Earth any further. Soon, you can have Iron and more steel from asteroids .

[gabriel]

ye wan sum asteroids? better call dem space cowboys

[tbone]

Here a question. Have they ever tried to improve the speed of a ship in space wether it's a probe or space shuttle

[Nusma]

Error in the title. Doesn't this video go more after the "how" rather than the "why" we try capturing an asteroid?

[Psychtikk]

I'm already getting flashbacks from Dead Space...