Conquering the asteroid to save humanity

NASA is working to send astronauts mission to the asteroid in 15 years. This is a task almost impossible. Lockheed Martin is responsible for building the ship Orion capsule - Photo: NASA Those who witnessed historic moments of the U.S. aerospace industry that talk back to the moon is possible, rather than meeting the spacecraft on an asteroid have any certain period. However, NASA's brain really excited before the goal, arguing that the existence of human civilization depends on it. The asteroid is a giant rock around the sun, like Earth. And someday it might crash into the planet, as previously predicted by experts. Difficulties pile up Sending people to the asteroids not as easy as in the amateur movie Armageddon starring Bruce Willis in 1998. You could never land on an asteroid will be thrown out because of space soon, because it has no gravity. Although the spacecraft is plugged directly onto the surface of the asteroid, the astronauts also difficult to set foot on the ground if not washed right out. NASA is thinking caps enough to keep the astronauts adrift on the surface of asteroids, from jet backpack, leash, bungee cord jumping, the spider net. The spacecraft deployed in the mission to blend the spacecraft model in the series Star Trek and detectors deep seabed with the crab robot arm. The most important goal is to connect the spacecraft to the asteroid surface; ship small to be easily moved, and still enough room for the astronauts survived from 1 to 2 weeks or more. Recent calculations show that it takes about half a year to get to the nearest asteroid. However, the system jets for long trips so the universe has not been completed. To be able to provide enough energy for the operation of spacecraft, have mounted plate size of a football field wide enough to collect solar energy. Ships travel must also meet the conditions to protect the astronauts from the dangerous rays from the sun and the universe. All of the above means that NASA will be forced to design a system closely linked as an international space station zoom. And yet, choosing the appropriate assembly point is a challenge of this program is hard to swallow. And everything must be done somewhere in 2025 by order of President Barack Obama. Mission to prevent disaster Despite these difficulties, not hard to understand why NASA is still trying to work to achieve this target. The agency sent a research vessel asteroid for years, and even respond to an asteroid nearly 10 years ago. Last week, a spacecraft exploration began around a giant asteroid called Vesta, are far more than Mars. Moreover, while sending a mission to Mars is very difficult to implement but expensive, the landing on the asteroid is much more significant. In addition to studying the solar system formed, about to set foot on the asteroid could prevent a terrible risk, for every 100 million years after the asteroid has a diameter of nearly 100 km and the Earth . If the research is thorough, experts hope to change its direction, to avoid catastrophic destruction to the planet. NASA promises to make rocket designs needed by the end of this summer, and Congress ordered the construction of them in 2016. We all hope will accrue to future space probes are Orion, has spent more than $ 5 billion investment to put the crew into space. And then NASA has just come the halfway point.

Theo TNO