Space cowboys

NASA plans to  bag themselves an asteroid

April 1st has been and gone so I'm guessing that this story is for real.  NASA are planning to engage in a bit of trajectory shift by lassoing errant asteroids and swinging them off to park elsewhere.  This appears to be a rehearsal for space missions where we would want to land astronauts onto asteroids.

This is all due to happen in 2019, which is not that far away really.  Good luck to them.


Herding asteroids (Stuff)

NASA lasso plans (SkyNews)

How NASA plan to lasso the asteroid (Source: Daily Mail)

$100 million plan (Daily Mail)

Could we lasso an asteroid? (Discovery News)