Daunting space task: Send astronauts to asteroid

HOUSTON (AP) — With the space shuttle now history, NASA 's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years. The challenges are innumerable. Some old-timers are grousing about it, saying going ...

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