Sentences with phrase «safe orbit of earth»

In parallel, NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)-- a first - ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth's moon for future exploration by astronauts in the 2020s.

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In 2010 NASA announced the Commercial Crew Program, with a goal of developing a «safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation to low Earth orbit,» says Stephanie Martin, the program's spokesperson.

But certain orbital safe havens known as Trojan points, leading or trailing the moon in its orbit around Earth, would allow a moonlet to hang around for tens of millions of years before meeting its end.

As part of the mission, after NASA sends a near - Earth Object (NEO) to a safe orbit, the space agency will send astronauts to explore and collect samples of the asteroid, to occur in the 2020s.