The moon has had its day and Mars is just, well, too far away.Nasa plans to put a man on an asteroid by 2025 in a real-life version of the film Armageddon.
Astronauts will embark on a six-month mission to land on a lump of rock around the size of a building and take samples which could tell us about the origins of our solar system.
It would be the first manned mission into ‘deep space’ and at five million miles away, is 20 times further than a voyage to the moon.
Such a venture could form the foundations for a journey to Mars, and recalls the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon, in which Bruce Willis blows up an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Read More
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