NASA called for a contribution to the Asteroid Redirect Mission program

In addition to the inherent potential, NASA has always called on the research community to contribute new ideas and innovative solutions to space programs. Today, the US Aerospace Agency announced a search for ideas related to meteorite capture systems, navigation sensors and commercial spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Mission program. NASA also hopes to be able to connect and collaborate with individuals / organizations to study the spacecraft's secondary payload solutions and crew missions.

NASA's mission to hunt and exploit Asteroid Initiative meteorites is divided into two programs including Asteroid Grand Challenge and Asteroid Redirect Mission . In it the first program focused on developing cooperative relationships to promote prevention, prevention of meteorological hazards and the next program focused on finding solutions for collecting and reorienting a meteorite, brought back to where astronauts can explore and exploit.

The ARM program will include missions to detect a meteorite, deploy a robotic mission to capture and guide meteorites to orbit around the Moon, eventually using the Orion spacecraft to bring astronauts Space to survey and take samples to Earth. All these efforts are geared towards the common goal of bringing people to Mars.

William Gerstenmaier - manager of Human Exploration & Operations at NASA said the US aerospace agency hopes to select a solution among many ideas from the community to meet the vision of bringing people to Mars. Future. Only 25% of the proposals were selected and funds for the program was 6 million USD according to NASA.