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May 15, 2013
The Planetary Society Announces Conditional Support of NASA's Asteroid MissionThe Planetary Society conditionally supports NASA's plan to capture a small asteroid and place it in lunar orbit. The mission spurs investment in technologies crucial to solar system exploration, such as very large solar-electric propulsion systems and automated deep-space operations, and in enhanced and expanded ways to detect and monitor asteroids. Our support is conditional on the requirement that Congress and the White House must provide proper funding for this mission that does not raid existing, high-priority science missions within NASA.
May 01, 2013
Nine-Year-Old Names Asteroid Target of NASA Mission in Competition Run By The Planetary SocietyAsteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 now has the much friendlier name
Apr 24, 2013
Planetary Society Testimony for Congressional NASA FY14 Budget HearingsThe Planetary Society's official testimony to Congress on the FY14 NASA Budget proposal.
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