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Lee Speigel
AOL News
It’s a little soon for astronauts to suit up, but NASA is planning to send a manned mission to an asteroid in 2025.
In keeping with President Barack Obama’s 2010 vision, the space agency has shifted its sights from returning to the moon and, instead, is aiming for a smaller — and possibly more dangerous — rock in space, Space.com reports.
“By 2025, we expect a new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” Obama said last year at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“So we’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth, and a landing on Mars will follow.”
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