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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: NASA's Next Mission [Watch (HLS stream): NASA's Next Mission](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kc7EDltB.m3u8) (1:56)  _Published 2014-07-23. NASA's Next Mission_ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:02 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [U.N. Chief Warns Humanity Cannot Survive Another "Oppenheimer," as Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Gains Support](/video/NO9ydtsM/) ### U.N. Chief Warns Humanity Cannot Survive Another "Oppenheimer," as Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Gains Support [The Real Oppenheimer - A Nuclear Historian's Perspective](/video/I2oPNLYU/) ### The Real Oppenheimer - A Nuclear Historian's Perspective [More Than 120 Countries to Adopt the First-Ever U.N. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons](/video/PmRyIRdg/) ### More Than 120 Countries to Adopt the First-Ever U.N. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons --- ## Transcript Forty- five years ago, the United States won the ultimate race. It beat the Russians to the moon. The Eagle has landed. And while a half- a- billion people watched Neil Armstrong take that small step, it seems that, well, we're kind of over the moon. The last time America sent a man to the pie in the sky was in 1972. NASA's Constellation program would have returned astronauts back to the moon, however, President Obama cancelled the program in 2010. Seems the sentiment was: been there, done that. Instead, NASA is setting it's sights on a new target. The perfect asteroid. They wanna catch one, pull it into the orbit of the moon, and send astronauts there to study it. It's called the Asteroid Redirect Mission, the first phase of the mission involves a robotic space craft rendezvousing with a small asteroid and pulling it into the orbit of the moon. To do this, NASA has come up with two options. Option A would engulf an asteroid with a tent like contraption. And option B would break off a boulder from a much larger asteroid. After the asteroid is in the orbit of the moon, astronauts would then visit it, using the same system, that may someday, transport humans to Mars. The development budget for the Asteroid Redirect Mission is approximately $ 1. 2 billion. Now, why does the U. S. want to spend all of this money to capture an asteroid? Well, NASA says there's several reasons, like planetary defense. Remember that asteroid that buzzed over Russia? That one only side swiped us and it injured more than 1, 000 people. Or how about what happened to the dinosaurs? [ NOISE ] The thinking goes that if we're able to change the orbit of an asteroid and study its composition, we can protect ourselves against another one crashing into Earth. We could potentially mine asteroids and use the missions as a testing ground for the technologies that may one day bring humans to Mars. So, it may have been a giant leap for mankind. 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