Revealed: The video that shows how Nasa astronauts will lasso an asteroid, take samples from it and return them to Earth The plan was revealed this week in an animation released by the agency Astronauts will shuttle to and from asteroids aboard the next-generation Orion spacecraft NASA expects to capture its first asteroid by 2025 By RYAN GORMAN PUBLISHED: 05:58 GMT, 25 August 2013 | UPDATED: 16:46 GMT, 25 August 2013 67 shares 54 View comments The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a new mission – to capture an asteroid, send a spaceship to it and collect samples before returning home in less than a month round trip. In an effort to attain a better understanding of asteroids, meteors and other near-space objects, the space exploration arm of the US government plans to capture an asteroid, fly a crew to it in a next-generation spacecraft, take samples and return home to a splashdown in the ocean. Funding for the project is included in the space agency’s upcoming budget. The latest version of the plan was revealed in an animation made public Thursday on YouTube that has a soundtrack that sounds like it came from the ‘Dark Knight.’ Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401626/Nasa-astronauts-lasso-asteroid-samples-return-Earth.html#ixzz2dFIrXxB1 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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