NASA bets on asteroid mission as best path to Mars
Some scientists question whether redirect plan would get humans any closer to Red Planet

ROCKY ROAD TO MARS NASA has billed its Asteroid Redirect Mission as a stepping stone to Mars. In one mission concept, illustrated here, an astronaut collects a sample from a bagged asteroid orbiting the moon.
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