NASA seeks to capture an asteroid in 2019

NASA says it will start a mission to capture an asteroid in 2019 to obtain information from cosmic planet's past.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the first phase of the plan to capture an asteroid in space and send it to lunar orbit for study starting in 2019 when a spacecraft is launched, reports the agency portal 'Nasa . gov. '

According to NASA data, we plan to choose an asteroid in 2018 and the following year sent a spacecraft's mission is to land on a small asteroid or use it as a piece of a bigger one. In 2020, a crew of astronauts to the space rock will colonize all kinds of research on it about the cosmic past.

NASA currently is approving design ideas of the ship and has published several sketches. Meanwhile, the agency is working on the Orion to be launched in 2020 crewed spacecraft and other space programs also develops a plan to launch a robot into space in 2016 to be fixed at the captured asteroid and return with samples in 2023