B612 Foundation Earth Day Impact Video, Press Conference and Webcast “The B612 Foundation will hold a press conference today which will be webcast from the Seattle Museum of Flight today. […]
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Lets Just Argue About Space Instead of Exploring It
Keith’s note: There has been a flurry of comments via Twitter and press releases over the past 24 hours about going to Mars – and what things we can do […]
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NASA Releases Asteroid Redirect Mission Broad Agency Announcement
NASA to Host Media Teleconference on an Asteroid Initiative Broad Agency Announcement “NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Friday, March 21, to discuss the same-day release […]
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NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission BAA To Be Released
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Broad Agency Announcement “NASA intends to issue an Asteroid Redirect Mission Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on March 21, 2014. NASA is developing concepts for the Asteroid […]
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2014 BA3 – Possible Asteroid Robotic Retrieval Mission Target?
2014 BA3 Goldstone Radar Observations Planning “2014 BA3 was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (Arizona) on January 21, 2014. It has an absolute magnitude of 28.3 suggesting a diameter […]
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Asteroid Impacts Are More Common Than We Thought
Chelyabinsk Meteoroid Airburst Event Yields Crucial Data “A team of NASA and international scientists for the first time have gathered a detailed understanding of the effects on Earth from a […]
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Renewed Call for Asteroid Defense
ASE Calls for Global Cooperation to Confront Asteroid Threats “At a public event today at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), a professional […]
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We're Still Waiting For NASA's Asteroid Mission Justification
American Human Spaceflight Floundering, Opinion, Mark Sykes, SpaceNews “A workshop of experts met recently in Washington to review and discuss the Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM). It is apparent that the […]
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NASA's Goofy New Asteroid Mission Strategy: Don't Worry – Be Happy (Update)
NASA officials talk challenges, and thrills, of capturing an asteroid, LA Times “Having trouble getting excited about NASA’s planned mission to redirect an asteroid? Maybe William Gerstenmaier can help. “Turn […]
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Taking Asteroid Threats Seriously
The Save-the-World Foundation, Science (Subscription required for full access) “In the new economy of commercial ventures into Earth’s orbit, the B612 Foundation is aiming for much farther–into deep space–propelled by […]